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Blood Falls Is a Scarlet Oddity in an Antarctic Glacier
Flowing water when the air is below freezing is a rare sight, but at Blood Falls, it's something else entirely: liquid water the color of fresh blood pours out of a crack in an Antarctic glacier. It's taken scientists years to understand why it happens, but what they've discovered could mean good things for finding life on other planets.
Put Some Ice On That Wound
Why is Blood Falls blood red? For years, scientists believed it was due to red algae, the same thing that causes bizarre "watermelon snow." But in 2015, an international team of researchers discovered what it really is: saltwater chock-full of iron. When it comes in contact with oxygen, that iron turns a deep red color, the same way your bike chain accumulates reddish rust in the rain.
In 2017, some of those same researchers confirmed their findings and pinpointed the exact source of the Dracula-inspired waterfall. Even though Taylor Glacier, where Blood Falls calls home, is located within the McMurdo Dry Valleys — an area named for its extreme desert conditions — the team discovered that the blood-red water comes from a liquid reservoir of brine below the glacier. But what's really exciting is that it's not the only one: there's an entire waterway flowing beneath the ice.
"We found that these brines were more widespread than previously thought," Jill Mickucki, a microbiologist and lead author of the 2015 study, told Rachel Feltman of The Washington Post. " They appear to connect these surface lakes that appear separated on the ground. That means there's the potential for a much more extensive subsurface ecosystem, which I'm pretty jazzed about."
Kelly Falkner/National Science Foundation
Water doesn't normally flow through ice, as you know. But the scarlet brine of Blood Falls actually heats up as it freezes. That's because a phase change, like when liquid water turns to ice, produces heat energy. When it comes to this brine, the heat produced by it freezing is enough to keep the rest of it flowing. That's exciting because brine is a perfect place to find microbial life — Blood Falls is no exception — and if brine can stay liquid under layers of ice, that means microbial life might live deep within icy worlds of our solar system and beyond.
To learn more about the alien world of Antarctica, check out "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing. The audiobook is free with a trial of Audible. We handpick reading recommendations we think you may like. If you choose to make a purchase through that link, Curiosity will get a share of the sale.
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Written by Ashley Hamer January 6, 2018
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Tyler Baltierra Shares Pic of ‘Beautiful’ Catelynn Lowell Says He’s ‘So Blessed’
Teen Mom OG’s Tyler Baltierra shared a tribute to wife Catelynn Lowell on Friday, July 12, writing that he is “so blessed” to have her.
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“My Babe @catelynnmtv I love you so much! (sorry for taking a pic of you sleeping, I know you hate that) I just couldn’t help it!” the 27-year-old captioned a photo of her in bed as well as another of her smiling. “You’re so damn beautiful even when you’re not trying. I’m so blessed to have you & to hold you in my arms every night for the rest of my life! #13YearsStrong #MyPartnerThroughLife #MyBestFriend”
The MTV star, 27, commented, “ gosh I love you so much @tylerbaltierramtv and @sikworld LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!! Thanks man ”
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Singer Sik World, who is Baltierra’s brother, commented on the post, “the love & admiration you have for her is beautiful. when we had our private talks when we chilled you always spoke so highly of her and I can tell you truly do love her with your heart and soul & it’s amazing to see that true love still exist in a world where it seems to be dying out. She’s so lucky to have you as a husband and father to her children as you’re lucky to have her as a wife and mother to your children. Love you guys ”
As previously reported, the couple, who have been together since middle school, briefly lived apart last year.
“It’s funny because we actually don’t even call it separation anymore,” Baltierra told Us Weekly during out “Watch With Us” podcast in December. “We say, ‘Let’s just do 30 days of self-reflection time. You get to focus on you, I get to focus on me. We’ll continue to do couples’ therapy. We’ve got a great therapist who works really good with us, so [we’re] kind of following her advice on top of the separation, whatever you wanna call it. We call it 30 days of self-reflection – just positive terminology here.”
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They later reunited, with Lowell telling us in June that they’re “living in the same place” and are now “in a good place.”
The pair, who share daughter Novalee, 4, and Carly, 10, who they placed for adoption, welcomed third daughter Vaeda in February after suffering a devastating miscarriage.
“This baby is our rainbow after the storm,” Lowell told Us exclusively last September.
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Correlation Ventures: Taking the “Gut Feel” out of VC
Written by jessica, Posted on April 9, 2018
Correlation Ventures leverages a comprehensive database on VC financings and an associated predictive model to make rapid VC investment decisions based on data.
Correlation Ventures is using data to take the instinct out of venture capital investing. Typical venture capitalists depend on “gut feel” built through years of experience to make investment decisions, but this can lead to unintentional adverse effects. Laura Huang, a professor at Wharton who researches how intuition can affect VC investments, believes that “gut feelings might just be a cover for our bias…driving most of our decisions.”
Founded in 2006, Correlation didn’t make a single investment for 4 years. Instead, the founders (HBS alums) David Coats and Trevor Kienzle, amassed the most complete database of VC financings in existence, by meeting with other VCs, entrepreneurs, and data providers. Using this data (consisting of financing details, investors, board members, management, industry segment, business stage, exit details, and more), Correlation built a predictive model that enables them to make many investments very rapidly using disciplined analytics.
While typical VCs may take months to make an investment decision, Correlation leverages their model to make decisions in as little as two days. For entrepreneurs and VCs seeking co-investors, the firm offers quick and easy access to VC capital without ever taking a board seat. The decision-making speed enables Correlation to make many more investments than a typical VC; in September 2015, they had a portfolio of 112 companies for their first fund. The model is built to achieve smaller successes. Co-founder Coats described the model as “kind of like counting card in blackjack” in that “it’s really designed to tilt the odds in our favor a little bit. If you play enough hands you should win.” The use of data to drive investment decisions seems to be paying off; Correlation has significant investments in Casper and invested in Virsto, which exited for $200M, resulting in a substantial windfall for Correlation and evidence of their ability to capture value they create.
Correlation is not alone in using analytics to identify good investment opportunities. Several other firms have employed similar approaches and amassed databases of information they use to create models. Correlation believes their database to be the “most complete, comprehensive database on venture investments and their outcomes.” Assuming no other companies can amass a comparably complete database, Correlation should be able to maintain a competitive advantage relative to competitors in making quick and profitable VC decisions. The data ownership also presents several opportunities for the firm. For example, the database could potentially be sold as a product, enabling Correlation to become the data provider to other VCs, a potentially lucrative opportunity.
If Correlation were to productize and sell their data, other VC firms would face an interesting organizational challenge like the one seen in Moneyball. Venture capitalists have historically relied on instinct and gut feel to make investment decisions. It could be challenging to convince these individuals to trust a computer model, particularly if they fear being replaced by the machine. It will be crucial to get senior leaders to believe that data analytics are a benefit to their role rather than a threat, and to recognize that their intuition is likely introducing bias that could be impacting results. Leveraging a predictive model in VC could help firms eliminate much of the bias that exists in today’s investment environment (for example, investing in male entrepreneurs over female entrepreneurs) while also increasing returns for firms.
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Time will tell if predictive analytics lead to investment success for Correlation and other data-driven VC funds. With $350 AUM, Correlation is worth keeping an eye on in the coming years to evaluate the role data can play in VC.
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April 9, 2018 Shiv says:
I find the analogy you used to compared this method to counting cards in blackjack very interesting, and a reason why I am skeptical of this model. Given that odds are marginally shifted in your favor seems not good enough in an industry where each bet should return at least your whole fund size.
April 9, 2018 CNH says:
Interesting post, Jessica! Although it is possible that Correlation Ventures is able to identify strong investments using this model, I wonder what the value prop is for entrepreneurs who might be looking for investors who can facilitate networking and provide operational know-how. I’m also very curious to understand how robust this model would be for seed/early stage investments where data is incredibly limited, as well as for new technologies for which historical and comparable competitive information does not exist.
April 10, 2018 Chris Haak says:
I think this was such a great idea, and in a competitive field with hundreds of upstart VC firms fighting for LP funds and deals, I think the team at Correlation was really smart to find a way to differentiate themselves. While it sounds like they are still in the early stages of establishing a track record, $350+ AUM is no joke for a VC firm. Question is, as deal data becomes more easily accessible online (and through sources like Crunchbase and Pitchbook), and other VCs start building their own databases, how long until Correlation’s quant-driven edge gets competed away?
April 10, 2018 Y.Z. says:
Very interesting. Although I still have some reservations on the model, should it work, I believe this can break the very last limitation entrepreneurs face in the wake of raising money : getting geographically closer to where the source of capital is.
Provided this system delivers on its promise, I foresee entrepreneurs across the country (the world?) being able to jump-start their businesses and focus on growing it instead of having to move to the Valley area when it isn’t always necessary.
April 10, 2018 EIO says:
Very interesting model! One thing I took away from Founders’ Journey is the importance of the founding team (when it comes to a successful venture), and I am wondering the extent to which this model works to assess important attributes that are less data-driven like the chemistry between co-founders?
April 10, 2018 JY says:
Thanks for your post! Similar to EIO’s comment, I guess this data model won’t be able to capture the qualitative insights gained from the conversations with founders and observing dynamics at the office. (For example, the investors are often betting on the founder’s abilities and potential).
Since the traditional VC model is based on “spray and pay” model, the historical VC investment data inherently has a majority of deals that won’t be successful, so it feels like Correlation Ventures will be working with flawed data to begin with. If the company only uses the “successful” investments as data, I believe there may also be a lot of noise and non-documentable reasons for those successes that will be hard for a data model to capture.
April 10, 2018 PD says:
Very cool post! We may need to change the way that we discuss VC success when evaluating this type of model. You mention that the company points to investments in Casper and Virsto as signs that their model is working. But in a model in which they’re making so many smaller bets, is investing in a couple of successful companies really that meaningful? For a typical VC that is making fewer, bigger bets two great picks could be significant. But if Correlation is investing in over 100 companies per fund it seems almost inevitable that they’ll pick a couple of winners and their payoff from each of those investments seems like it can’t be that huge.
April 11, 2018 EAP says:
Great post, Jessica, thank you. This is so interesting, as the traditional VC model seems a bit under attack. As you mentioned, if this model can remove many of the biases inherent within investors, that could be a huge value-add for the VC team in assessing an investment decision objectively. I like the idea that a mission for machine learning, data analytics, and AI is to process enormous amounts of data, and freeing up the humans to use judgement and analysis — as we’ve discussed in class, and an area that AI still struggles with — to ultimately make the investing decision. Therefore, this could be a tool both for Correlation Ventures and, as you mentioned, a tool they can license — that’s an interesting thought too.
I wonder too how the entrepreneurs feel about receiving money from Correlation’s AI. If I were an entrepreneur, I would hope my investor is passionate about serving on my board and helping our company succeed – not investing because the algorithm thought so. I doubt Correlation lacks passion for the investments, in fact, I would imagine they would be more excited once the data supports their intuition. But as an entrepreneur, I want to be lock step with my VCs, utilizing their understanding of an industry and harnessing their guidance, to grow the company and achieve profitability quickly. I wonder how Correlation provides those sorts of services to its many investments.
April 11, 2018 Sairah says:
Very interesting idea! Thanks for sharing! I agree with you that the biggest barrier here will be getting VCs to buy into the technology (ironically). I think many VCs already have anxiety about how much value they’re adding to the business. This idea really needs to be pitched as one where the VC can better organize and evaluate the deals based on multiple factors and then analyze the information/recommendations presented to them and make a final decision.
It will fundamentally change the VC industry though — it is certain that these algorithms also have some bias in them and only certain types of businesses might succeed. It might be necessary to give VCs autonomy in some of the input factors as well.
April 11, 2018 Ross Galloway says:
Thanks for a great post Jessica! I’m interested to learn a bit more about the factors included in the model – specifically, do they go to the detail of characteristics of the founders? Beyond the team chemistry mentioned above, I worry that if the model includes data about demographics of the founders, and is too backward looking, it may eliminate more diverse founding teams because the algorithm doesn’t have historical data or the ability to be forward looking.. given lack of data perhaps those factors are not included, but I worry about companies being able to hide behind machines, or use algorithms to justify unfair decision making.
April 11, 2018 Anton says:
I don’t understand how they can gather enough high quality data to make this anymore than a marketing ploy to differentiate themselves to LPs. Start-ups are by definition new and unproven, data is scarce and often incorrect. A lot of these start-ups are making bets that the future will not be the same as the last, so is historical data really a strong indicator of success?
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The History of South American Tropical Precipitation for the Past 25,000 Years
Paul A. Baker, Duke UniversityFollow
Geoffrey O. Seltzer, Syracuse University
Sherilyn C. Fritz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Robert B. Dunbar, Stanford University
Matthew J. Grove, Duke University, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC
Pedro M. Tapia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scott L. Cross, Duke University, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC
Harold D. Rowe, Stanford University
James P. Broda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Published in SCIENCE26 JANUARY 2001 VOL 291. Copyright 2001. Used by permission. www.sciencemag.org
Long sediment cores recovered from the deep portions of Lake Titicaca are used to reconstruct the precipitation history of tropical South America for the past 25,000 years. Lake Titicaca was a deep, fresh, and continuously overflowing lake during the last glacial stage, from before 25,000 to 15,000 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.), signifying that during the last glacial maximum (LGM), the Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru and much of the Amazon basin were wetter than today. The LGM in this part of the Andes is dated at 21,000 cal yr B.P., approximately coincident with the global LGM. Maximum aridity and lowest lake level occurred in the early and middle Holocene (8000 to 5500 cal yr B.P.) during a time of low summer insolation. Today, rising levels of Lake Titicaca and wet conditions in Amazonia are correlated with anomalously cold sea-surface temperatures in the northern equatorial Atlantic. Likewise, during the deglacial and Holocene periods, there were several millennial-scale wet phases on the Altiplano and in Amazonia that coincided with anomalously cold periods in the equatorial and high-latitude North Atlantic, such as the Younger Dryas.
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Myanmar’s landmines hinder return of displaced
5 April – Landmines in Myanmar’s south eastern Kayin and Kayah states and Bago division, and in the northern Shan and Kachin states, threaten the return of more than 450,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
“There will be no active promotion of return until landmines areas are identified, openly marked and cleared,” said Maja Lazic, senior protection officer at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Myanmar.
While the exact extent of landmine pollution throughout Myanmar is unknown, the army and at least 17 non-state armed groups (NSAGs) have used anti personnel mines in conflicts over the past 14 years, according to the Geneva-based International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Myanmar’s central government faces a number of long standing ethnic-based insurgencies by groups demanding greater autonomy.
“Anti-personnel mines are used as terror weapons by both sides… [Some] are not marked because the combatants want to strike fear into the enemy. This results in both sides terrorizing the [civilian] population with mines,” said Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, ICBL’s research coordinator for Myanmar.
The decline of active conflict in south eastern Myanmar in the past year has led to a slight decrease in reported incidents of mine accidents, according to the ICBL and Geneva Call, a Swiss NGO that specializes in mine-risk education. But no armed group has yet officially committed to ending mine use, said Moser-Puangsuwan.
Mine clearance cannot take place until there is durable peace, say the UN and NGOs. Meanwhile, unreliable information about the location of mines continues to kill, restrict villagers’ movement and stall preparation for the return of displaced populations.
The government has signed ceasefire agreements with five NSAGs since January 2012, but trust and collaboration between the various NSAGs and government forces – preconditions for mine removal – are still needed, according to the UNHCR Myanmar.
“The process requires agreement, cooperation and support from conflict parties,” said Lazic and Patricia Treimer, a field officer with UNHCR Myanmar.
The ceasefires have not significantly reduced the use of landmines, as NSAGs, government forces and even civilians continue to employ landmines to defend and reclaim territories and protect themselves.
A spokesperson for the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), which authored a May 2012 report on landmines in the east, said that in Kayin State “the ongoing presence of [military] troops means that even though there is a ceasefire, communities and armed groups still take defensive measures, including the planting of landmines”.
Active conflict since June 2011 in Kachin State has displaced upwards of 83,000 people from Kachin and parts of neighbouring Shan. All those displaced are at risk of landmine injuries upon their return, say aid workers.
“[Landmine] incidents have been reported in many regions of Kachin where there has been active fighting,” said Carine Jaquet, the head of the UNHCR’s Myitkyina field office.
Fighting has decreased in recent months in Kachin (with ongoing skirmishes in Shan), but “people are in danger once they attempt to return to their villages,” she added.
“Before the IDPs have a chance to return back, there has to be humanitarian mine action, a security guarantee from both sides and durable peace,” said La Rip, the coordinator of the Laiza-based Relief Action Network for IDPs and Refugees, a network of 12 NGOs providing relief to displaced persons in both government and rebel-controlled areas.
Fears of casualty spike
No mine mapping has been conducted in mine-riddled southeastern Myanmar. Signs marking mined locations are rare and local knowledge about landmines is unreliable, resulting in the frequent landmine incidents, say experts. But it can be even worse for those who have been away.
“Refugees have not had to live with mine risk concerns for many years now, so their awareness of the risks is much lower [than those who stayed],” explained Sally Thompson, executive director of The Border Consortium (TBC), an NGO consortium providing aid to Burmese refugees in Thailand.
Many cross-border routes into southeastern Myanmar are known by locals and NGOs to be contaminated with mines, according to Geneva Call.
Nine refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border urgently need more mine-risk education, said TBC. “People will be moving as soon as they feel armed conflict has really ended, and we expect there will be a spike in mine casualties as a result,” Moser-Pangsuwan said.
Because peace processes and mine clearance may take years, education is the most practical way of decreasing accidents, according to TBC.
Mine action plans underway
Humanitarian agencies clearing mines, including the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Danish Church Aid, have been working with the government since November 2012 on mine issues.
The first Mine Risk Working Group meeting in Myanmar was held in January in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, with UNICEF, Danish Church Aid, the Department of Social Welfare, and the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.
“All of the agencies are ready to begin demining activities but are waiting for the government and armed groups to reach an agreement,” said Chris Rush, senior programme officer for Geneva Call in Asia.
In addition, the Myanmar Peace Centre, a government initiative established last October, includes the Myanmar Mine Action Centre, which is currently developing removal standards.
“There is a real push to clear mines, but it is not sensible without understanding where the problem is,” said Rush.
The Myanmar government is among the 20 percent of all governments that have not signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. Along with Syria, it is the only country whose official forces continue to plant mines, according to Moser-Puangsuwan.
“Landmines are one issue, of many issues, affecting return for the displaced. The first measure is an agreement between government and armed groups to stop laying landmines,” said Thompson.
[Courtesy of IRIN News]
This entry was posted in Amputees, Conflict Disabilities, Landmines, Myanmar and tagged Disability Aid Abroad, International Disability NGO, Landmines, politics, terror weapons on April 5, 2013 by disabilityaidabroad.
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Washington Post Portrays Ted Cruz’s Children as Dancing Monkeys, Here is His Killer Response…
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Could you imagine if a Conservative news source portrayed Obama’s daughters as Monkeys?!! It would be an outrage and liberals would lose their minds, but it’s fair game when it comes to a conservative’s family and it’s disgusting.
Washington Post cartoonist, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ann Telnaes, published a Christmas-themed cartoon where the senator’s 5 and 7 year-old daughters are portrayed as monkeys on a leash. Classy right? Meanwhile, Cruz himself is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the girls’ leashes are attached. Cruz’s wife and the girls’ mother, Heidi, is not in the cartoon. Telnaes claims that Ted Cruz uses his children as “political props” because he recently aired an ad that shows him reading to his children.
Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props https://t.co/gKT8Jhjm17pic.twitter.com/GNfoP4batF
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) December 22, 2015
Telnaes attempted to defend herself writing, “There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,” Telnaes admits. “People don’t get to choose their family members so obviously it’s unfair to ridicule kids for their parent’s behavior while in office or on the campaign trail- besides, they’re children. There are plenty of adults in the political world who act childish, so there is no need for an editorial cartoonist to target actual children.”
I’ve kept to that rule, except when the children are adults themselves or choose to indulge in grown-up activities (as the Bush twins did during the George W Bush presidency),” Telnaes wrote. “But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father’s dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.”
Cruz handled her repulsive behavior much better than a lot of parents would have. He responded with a tweet that simply read:
Classy. Washington Post makes fun of my girls. Stick with attacking me-Caroline and Catherine are out of your league.
He couldn’t have come up with a better jab if he tried. That comeback not only made Ann Telnaes look like the scum that she is, it also made Cruz seem dignified and Presidential. Hats off to you Senator for being above trash like her!
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Trans “Female” Wins Girls’ Track Meet! The End Of Scholarships As We Know Them?
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trans "female" wins in girls' track meet
Trans “Female” Wins Girls’ Track Meet!
Girls’ scholarships everywhere are now at risk. Trans male-to-female students are now being allowed to compete in girls’ sports. Not only are they participating, they are winning, leaving otherwise eligible females out of luck.
Such was the case a few, short days ago in Anchorage, Alaska. Nattaphon “Ice” Wangyot, a male student who “self identifies” as a female, won two separate track events. In both the 100 meter and 200 meter races, Wangyot defeated “her” opponents and qualified to move on to the State Finals.
trans “female” wins in girls’ track meet
These two wins bumped other biologically female students out of slots for the finals that they would, without Wangyot’s involvement, have qualified for. These students are, understandably, not happy.
“It’s the DNA. Genetically a guy has more muscle mass than a girl, and if he’s racing against a girl, he may have an advantage,” one student explained.
Another stated “I don’t think it’s competitively, completely, 100-percent fair.” This young woman just missed the cut for one of the events that Wangyot took first place in.
Ladies, you are right. Not only do I think so, but so does the group Alaska Family Action. Their president, Jimmy Minnery, has been actively protesting the practice of allowing trans students to compete with members of the opposite sex. “Allowing students to play on teams of the opposite sex disproportionately impacts female students, who will lose spots on track, soccer, and volleyball teams to [biologically] male students who identify as female,” he argued.
The mother of one of the female athletes voiced her opinion, as well. “We have a responsibility to protect our girls that have worked really hard, that are working towards college scholarships.” You better believe it, mom. The number of scholarship spots for girls is already lower than than for male students. Now, biologically male students can vie for those as well, it seems.
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The trans situation is getting completely out of hand. Next thing you know we’ll have 6′ 5″, 250 lbs NFL cheerleaders with Adam’s apples. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ cheerleaders got voted sexiest uniform in the league. Try picturing someone like Terry Crews in it. Now, thank a liberal for that mental image. They have made it a real possibility.
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EXCLUSIVE: It seems strangely logical that the highest-priced sports team in the world is about to score the richest TV deal ever in
pro sports history. Insiders tell me that Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California and of course its national Fox Broadcasting Company. Fox already shows the games on its Prime Ticket local cable channel but also has Fox Sports West here.
The previous agreement expires at the end of next season, and saw Fox Sports paying only about $40 million per season for the Dodgers TV rights. There was speculation the final price would just go north of $150 million per season. This new deal soars to $280 million per season (the average for the life of the contract). The huge outlay by News Corp demonstrates the increasing value of sports to its bottom line, while the huge payday for Guggenheim offsets the record-setting $2.15 billion price paid for the Dodgers.
Related: Dodgers, Fox Sports Settle TV Rights Feud
But the sheer greed of Guggenheim’s ask on this new deal is staggering, especially when you consider it will all get passed down to the cable systems, advertisers, and ultimately consumers. The alternative for Guggenheim included higher ticket prices which would serve to only further alienate fans. Plus the new owners claim to need the money to bribe talented players to come to the mediocre Dodgers. And then there’s the sad fact that Major League Baseball teams are shifting from broadcast TV to cable networks – so fewer games will be available on free TV. Fox Sports expects to broadcast only one or two Major League Baseball games a week for the national audience next season.
Guggenheim and Fox Sports began preliminary talks in May. Then Fox Sports Media Group Co-President/COO Randy Freer enjoyed a 45-day exclusive negotiating window with Guggenheim Baseball Management’s Todd Boehly, the president of private equity firm Guggenheim Partners who was negotiating solo for the Dodgers owners. (Those owners also include former Los Angeles Lakers star turned mega-investor Magic Johnson, former Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals president Stan Kasten and Mandalay Entertainment CEO Peter Guber.) Those talks began October 15th and are set to expire on November 30th. My insiders think, barring any unforeseen obstacles, the Fox-Dodgers deal could clinch by Tuesday. If it doesn’t get done by the 30th deadline, Boehly will have blown the negotiations bigtime.
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I’m told a deal came “very close” to being done about a week ago “and then it went a little bit south”. To rattle Guggenheim’s cages, Fox Sports delivered an ultimatum that a deal had to be done by the end of this month or else it would stop negotiating. (Terms like “It’s dead” and “We’re out” were used.) The Fox Sports gambit worked. Because it would have left Guggenheim in a terrible situation without multiple bidders and with little leverage for next-in-line Time Warner Cable since CBS, Comcast/NBC, ABC/ESPN and even the MSG Network (controlled by the owners of Cablevision) never materialized. Of course, Guggenheim could have opted for the Dodgers to start its own network, as the Mets and Yankees have done. But big rewards come with big risks.
Also, in the middle of the run-up to negotiations in early October, Guggenheim’s Boehly bought Dick Clark Productions and put on the table a “programming element” involving Fox Broadcasting Network and DCP. Specifically, it called for DCP to have “more inventory” i.e. more shows airing on Fox Networks, sources tell me. I’m told the provision has been “in and out and in” the deal over recent weeks but appears to be ‘in’ right now.
Freer really knows this business – he ran the Fox regional sports networks for nearly half a decade – and knows not to overpay. He’s not when you consider that the Dodgers will play 162 games when the season starts in April. And yet TV rights to the Lakers who play 82 games just sold to Time Warner Cable for $3B over 20 years. And Fox just paid $3B for 49% of the YES Network which owns TV rights to the New York Yankees for 20 years. Considering that Fox also has the right to own 80% of YES (and will surely exercise that option), then $6B-$7B for this Dodgers deal sounds about about right given the hyper-inflated finances of sports TV rights. In the era of DVR, Hulu, Netflix and other ways to watch TV, sports viewers (overwhelmingly male) watch live and therefore don’t always skip through ads.
This makes sports programming increasingly valuable. It also helps Rupert Murdoch move yet another step closer to that national sports channel which is his long-term play to rival ESPN – and as a result extract higher fees from cable and satellite companies. The deal also satisfies investor curiosity about what News Corp has planned for its $10B cash stockpiled last year to buy the remaining stake in British Sky Broadcasting – until that deal was scuttled because of Rupe’s tabloid phone hacking scandal.
I understand that News Corp Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch, who was key to the company’s YES Network bid, “helped a little” with the Dodgers deal. The scion is a big believer in the power of sports programming and in his newly expanded job James oversees News Corp’s television business, including its regional sports channels. Plus, News Corp is preparing to split off its troubled publishing assets into a separate publicly traded company from its entertainment giant which will continue to grow through acquisitions particularly in its regional sports and cable television businesses.
Fox Sports making this latest deal was both offensive and defensive. It’s not just ESPN whose the main rival. The last thing Fox Sports wants is to see Time Warner Cable snap up bigger pieces of local sports networks or national sports teams after it snagged the Lakers TV rights deal away from Fox for its new channel SportsNet. Indeed Time Warner Cable has stated publicly that “we absolutely plan to become competitive” in TV rights now that it’s launched both an English- and Spanish-language sports telecast.
Of course, it has to rile News Corp that it once owned the Dodgers from 1998 to 2004 after paying a mere $350 million for the team from the O’Malley family. Eventually, mismanagement took a $50 million a year toll on the team and owner, which then sold the Dodgers for $430 million to Frank McCourt, who earlier this year sold it to Guggenheim. At one time McCourt offered News Corp the team’s TV rights for a bargain basement price. Now, as one newspaper pundit put it, “someone in News Corp’s accounting department with a long memory will probably be rolling his eyes”.
Whatever happens, TV rights prices won’t come down anytime soon unless ‘a la carte’ cable gets some semblance of traction in the courts or Congress and not just with consumers. And if that does ever happen, “the strong will survive, the weak will go,” one Big Media bigwig told me today very matter-of-factly.
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Seth Meyers Details Donald Trump’s Really Bad Week
Late Night took a long, hard Closer Look at President Donald Trump’s reaction to his really bad week. On the list: Trumpcare’s dwindling support in Congress, Republicans openly challenging his claim President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the election, and a judge putting the brakes on Travel Ban 2.0.
Trump, who had promised voters during the campaign “we’re going to win so much you’re going to get sick and tired of winning” (if you are sick and tired, go see your doctor before Trump takes away your health care, Meyers advised), responded to the setbacks by telling fans at a rally this week that his administration had “done far more than anybody has done in this office in 50 days, that I can tell you.”
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“Trump has done more in office, the way a toddler helps out in the kitchen. He may be trying, but by the time he leaves, there is snot on the fridge and a shoe in the dishwasher,” the NBC late-night host joked.
Rather than explain to supporters how he plans to move forward on the travel ban, or health care, Trump again attacked the media.
“Trump’s complaints and paranoia about his bad press have become almost incoherent,” Meyers observed. He pointed to Trump’s Wednesday night interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in which he complained the press had caused the positive reviews for his speech to Congress to be followed by more bad stories. In that interview, Trump also claimed Obama had intentionally designed Obamacare to fall apart after he left office.
And, at a rally in Tennessee this week, Trump defended his travel ban by lapsing into one of his favorite routines from the campaign: bashing Hillary Clinton.
“Wow! You guys are still doing ‘Lock Her Up’? ” marveled Meyers, which, in fairness, he acknowledged could be likened to attending a Billy Joel concert. “When you go see Billy Joel, you want to hear ‘Piano Man’.”
Trump capped his Really Terrible Week unveiling his budget blueprint, which, as expected, called for whacking the National Endowment for the Arts and other government orgs. One of them, however, surprised even Meyers:
“Meals on Wheels?! How dead inside do you have to be to not want to get food to old people?! Your heart is so small it makes your tiny hands look like catcher’s mitts,” Meyers told Trump.
“Old people voted for you. Your key demographics were ‘old people’ and ‘older people.’ They believed you when you said you cared about them.”
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Three in the Bag for Courteville: Nigeria Technology Awards 2015
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Courteville Business Solutions Plc cannot help but make positive headlines and 2015 has surely been a good year for the company, despite the country’s present volatile economic situation Courteville have not been fazed as it has continued providing the best of e-business solutions. The company has been constantly recognized for all its good work all year round with various awards and just recently they were recipients of 2 awards at the recently held Nigeria Technology Awards (NiTA). Courteville’s Group Managing Director Mr. Adebola Akindele was also rewarded with an award.
NiTA is an initiative of Technology Avenue, a leading provider of Information Technology and entertainment news with its core focus on the Technology Industry. The aim of NiTA is to reward Technology Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Academicians, Policy Makers (Government) and Inventors.
Courteville won the award for the Best Use of Technology Vehicle Registration and Automation winning the coveted prize ahead of I-Cube West Africa and Lagos Tolling Company.
Courteville also won the award for Technology Cross-Border Deal of the Year and this is attributed to its acquisition of Priority Loss Adjusters Limited, a Jamaican firm.
Mr. Akindele was paired in a stiff category which comprised of Sim Sid Shagaya (Founder/CEO of Konga) and Stanley Jegede (MD/CEO of Phase 3 Telecom Limited) in the Technology Personality of the Year category and he emerged victorious.
The household of Courteville appeared to be the biggest winners of the night carting away with a total of three awards on the night.
Congratulations to the entire staff of Courteville Business Solutions Plc and Mr. Adebola Akindele on another landmark achievement. A big appreciation to Nigerians for letting us serve you.
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The Ranger (Movie Review)
August 13, 2018 The Ranger (Movie Review)
Posted at 12:53h Jeannie Blue cryptic rock, CrypticRock, Movie reviews, News, Reviews 0 Comments
Each year, millions visit our National Parks – not everyone gets to leave! In the new Punk Rock-dusted Slasher/Horror flick The Ranger, a group of colorful punks are pit against one truly bad-ass park ranger, hellbent on keeping law and order in the woods. Currently entrenched in a successful run on the festival circuit, The Ranger rolls onward to upcoming screenings at Popcorn Frights, the IFC Center in NYC, Frightfest London, Genre Blast, BAFS, LAEMMLE, and more, all thanks to Glass Eye Pix/Hood River Entertainment.
The Ranger still.
Pink-haired, leather-clad punk rocker Chelsea (Chloe Levine: The Transfiguration 2016, The Defenders mini-series) is enjoying her evening at a local underground Punk club for the bridge and tunnel crowd in NYC. That is, until the “pigs” come and ruin the entire thing. Desperate to make an escape and carrying massive quantities of drugs, her boyfriend Garth (Granit Lahu: The Sinner series, Abstract Furies short 2018) decides to take matters into his own hands and stabs a police officer. This sets in motion an entire run-for-your-lives scenario, wherein their best friends Abe (Bubba Weiler: The Good Fight series, Puzzle 2018) and Jerk (Jeremy Pope in his acting debut) decide to come along for the ride. Somewhat unwittingly, so does the blue-haired free-spirit Amber (Amanda Grace Benitez: All Cheerleaders 2013, School of Rock series).
With APBs out for Chelsea and Garth, the group flee into the Catskills in a spray-painted van emblazoned with the immortal words “Live Free or Die.” With almost nowhere to hide, Garth makes the executive decision to take the group to Chelsea’s family’s old hunting cabin in the woods, a seemingly safe retreat from civilization. Before they can get to the safety of the cabin, however, they have a run-in with a local Park Ranger (Jeremy Holm: House of Cards series, Mr. Robot series). Anti-authority and quite the anarchist-in-training, Garth trades a few not-so-kindly or respectful words with the Ranger, who clearly already has a massive chip on his shoulder. A stickler for every fine detail of law and order, this Ranger does not appreciate mayhem on his mountain!
At the cabin, everything is not all s’mores and sunshine. The group are testy with one another, uncertain as to how to proceed with evading the authorities, while Chelsea is facing some seriously haunting memories of her childhood in these exact woods. When tragedy strikes from out of nowhere, the survivors will begin a race against time to save a friend’s life. Unfortunately, in their panicked state, they split up, and as is so often the case, this is only the beginning of their hell.
An Official Selection at 2018’s Frightfest London, Fantasia, and SXSW Film Festivals, The Ranger is a feature-length debut for talented Director Jenn Wexler (Slumber Party short 2012, Halloween Bash short 2013) and was written by Wexler and Giaco Furino (Did You Know Gaming? TV documentary short 2016). The film also stars Larry Fessenden (Habit 1995, Stake Land 2010) as Chelsea’s Uncle Pete, and Jeté Laurence (The Americans series, The Snowman 2017) as an adorable young Chelsea.
The idea of an authority figure with an axe to grind is hardly a new one in any film genre. In fact, none of the tropes presented in The Ranger are exactly new, but the puzzle pieces are fitted together in such a way as to craft a quick-moving tale that is an enjoyable watch. Here, the film falls into the over-generalized Horror-Thriller genre, while more specifically touching on the Slasher subgenre. However, this is all done with a “light” approach, which leaves The Ranger to never feel like a true 1980s Slasher. Although, the squeamish should be warned: there’s blood, including one truly gruesome scene involving a bear trap that goes so overboard as to be almost sadistically laughable. Laughable, that is, to those of us with iron stomachs.
The ensemble cast here do a good job in their roles, with the most well-rounded and complicated performances going to the film’s two lead actors: Levine (as Chelsea) and Holm (as the Ranger). In his role, Holm is intense and, ultimately, creeptastic, providing a suitably deranged twist that will leave one particular scene embedded in your memory long after the credits final crawl. He is the perfect example of a by-the-book enforcement agent, one who promises that “violators will be punished” with an iron fist (or a large rifle). Quite his opposite, Levine’s Chelsea is a young woman with a troubled past, someone struggling to find who she is in an already confusing world. While she seems to find a level of personal freedom within her current scene, she also has a clear respect and love of the great outdoors; she is young and wanting to be carefree, but tethered to a haunting, bloody real past.
The Ranger heavily traffics in an interesting twist on the same old in the form of its heavy nods to the NJ/NYC Punk scene, which include its wonderful Punk soundtrack. There is a clear love and appreciation for all thinks Punk Rock here, and you cannot help but love that about the film. Much like the contrast between the story’s two lead characters, this punk aesthetic is beautifully contrasted with some stunning scenery and nature, thanks to Upstate New York where The Ranger was filmed. This natural beauty is the perfect reminder to all to “take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”
There is a wonderful dichotomy at work here in The Ranger. Alright, so it is not going to change the landscape of Slashers for Horror films to come, but it is a good movie, an enjoyable ride that has some amusing highs. From its wonderful cast to its magnificent scenery, its questioning of authority and Punk Rock ethos, The Ranger is absolutely worthy of your next Netflix and chill session. For these reasons, CrypticRock give The Ranger 4 of 5 stars.
Glass Eye Pix/Hood River Entertainment
Screenings:
8-15-2018 Popcorn Frights Film Festival Fort Lauderdale, FL @ 7 PM
8-17-2018 IFC Center New York, NY
8-23-2018 Frightfest London London, UK @ 6PM
8-23-2018 BAFS Charlotte, North Carolina @ 7:30PM
9-2-2018 Genre Blast Winchester, VA @ 9:30PM
9-7-2018 LAEMMLE Beverly Hills, CA
9-2018 Motel/X Lisbon, Portugal
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Jeannie Blue
Jeannie likes to joke that she is little, yellow, blue, and different. She seemingly popped out of her mother's womb with a pen in her hand and has been writing ever since. Many moons ago - in what feels like a separate lifetime - Jean was co-editor of an online music magazine that afforded her great opportunities to interview and photograph some of her favorite bands/musicians: Tommy Lee, Good Charlotte, Warrant, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Sevendust, New Found Glory, Deftones, Poison, VH-1 "Band On the Run" Flickerstick, an endless list of unsigned locals, and so many others. These days, she can usually be found hiking aimlessly through the woods in her favorite Technicolor sneakers with a Nikon in hand and her rescue dog, Molly, who is a bit hare-brained.
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Spot the Watch: Aussie Chefs Special
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Review: Breitling Exospace B55
Tested! With full hands-on analysis, commentary, comparisons and live photographs. First in South East Asia.
Breitling Aerospace B55
Smart watch specially designed for aviation use.
Chronograph, Dual Timezone plus UTC, and connectivity to Android or iOS devices.
Quartz movement.
AwardsUp and coming
Brilliant approach to the Smart/Connected Watch genre. In our view, the class leading offering in this arena to date.
Communication between smart phone and watch is two way, and leverages on the strengths of each.
A bit pricey for a quartz watch, and the second most expensive Breitling in production.
Currently the best and most complete offering in the Smart/Connected watch genre. With good integration with aviation features, and a nicely executed and aesthetically pleasing package.
Review of the Breitling Aerospace B55
We wrote at length about the Breitling Exospace B55 when we first received the detailed and technical information on the watch. In that article (click here), we expounded on our thoughts on the new genre of watches which is now competing for wrist real estate: the Smart/Connected watch. A watch which not only tells the time, but also is connected via one’s smart phone into the world and beyond. Cool concept. But not so easy to implement. Most of these so called Smart/Connected Watches are severely lacking in one or another. And in our view, the Breitling Exospace B55 seems to be the best effort to date.
Breitling Exospace B55: a cool smart watch. We are not typically taken by quartz watches, but this is a handsome fellow, and quite a beauty.
Recommended reading: Our musings on the Smart/Connected Watch genre. And our initial impressions on the Exospace B55.
The Breitling Exospace B55
The Smart Features
We begin with what makes the watch smart. And we begin by saying that this implementation of the smart watch is the best we have come across to date. Breitling has chosen to use each device at its strengths. The phone is superior to the watch as it has better ergonomic interface, and a larger screen. And watch is superior to the phone as it is wearable, conveniently strapped to the wrist. It also is has superior ergonomics in many of the standard watch functions like telling the time, second timezone, and chronograph functions. And the balance, we feel is quite well chosen.
The app on an Apple iPhone which is connected to the Breitling Exospace B55. The screen capture is taken after the photo session, and hence show a later time (6:31pm local time) to the watch’s 6:05pm. The image of the B55 on the phone is curiously not animated to actual time, and always shows the watch at 10:10.
The iPhone app which we tested was well behaved and worked flawlessly after the 10 seconds or so it takes to pair with the watch. The app uses the real estate afforded by the large iPhone’s screen to good stead. And the displays are logical and clear. The interaction between the watch and iPhone is two way. There is a small lag in the communication as we observed, but we are hopeful that this will reduce in the next releases of the iPhone app and/or watch firmware.
The B55 can be used to display alerts the user that a message is received by the phone. The user can then view and respond to the message on the Smartphone. The B55 does no more than to alert the user. But the full array of settings and readings is available on the iPhone.
In usage, especially for its intended use in a flight cockpit, the B55 can be used to record divers timings essential to flying an aircraft. The B55 keeps track of flight times, split times, lap times etc. During flight, the watch is the superior instrument as it is strapped on one’s wrist. But once the flight lands, the data captured can be downloaded for tracking and analysis to the SmartPhone. Of course, the data can also be exported as a database on the phone to other platforms for further analysis.
The case is 46mm diameter, 15.25mm height solid titanium with a rotating bezel. The case is well made. The unidirectional bezel clicks with an assuring satisfaction.
The dial layout intelligently laid out: clarity, legibility being the order of the day.
The design is based on the the Breitling Cockpit B50. However, the B55 dial is visually it simpler and more legible than the rather crowded B50. This is largely due to the lack of compass bearings markers which is engraved on the B50’s bezel, and thankfully absent on the B55.
Like on the B50, the B55 has a “Tilt” mode to save power. The LCD backlighting goes blank after a short time out, but is reactivated when the watch senses the user tilts his wrist at a more than 35° angle, or when the crown is pressed. Not only quite clever, but also quite telling that the designers are also practicing pilots. One can keep one’s hands on the aircraft controls instead of fiddling to turn the backlight on the watch.
The entire dial layout intelligently laid out, a particularly important and highly desirable feature considering the mass of information it is capable of displaying. The two LCD displays are also used to alert the user of messages incoming from the connected Smartphone. Messages like WhatsApp, SMS, email, calls are displayed, but the user is not able to interact with the Smartphone through the B55. The watch is merely used to alert the user, as it is always on one’s wrist, it has the advantage of being always near/on-line.
Hands are traditional with SuperLuminova coating. And very visible, even in the dark.
The movement: Breitling Caliber B55
The movement is the house manufactured Breitling Caliber B55. Breitling labels the movement as SuperQuartz. This is a special quartz movement which is temperature compensated for the oscillation behavior of the quartz crystals. The result is a higher accuracy and Brietling specifies their SuperQuartz with an accuracy of less than 15 seconds a year. This is interesting, and perhaps point to the conservative nature of the family owned Breitling. The B55 is based on the ETA Thermoline series of movements, which specifies accuracy to 10 seconds per annum.
The movement is not visible on the B55 as it comes with a closed back.
The caseback of the Breitling Exospace B55, showing the engravings. As with all Breitling watches, the B55 is COSC certified, the only watch brand to certify all their watches with COSC.
The quartz movement has functions that if it were on a mechanical movement would lay claim to a Grande Complication title. In addition to a perpetual calendar, it has a 1/100th of a second flyback chronograph, 7 daily alarms, a countdown/countup feature, two timezones plus UTC. Of course, the B55 being a quartz movement, all these functions are a few lines of code on the applets which is loaded into the watch. But what is impressive how Breitling has designed the dial and ergonomics to be able to display this huge mass of data. The ergonomics is excellent.
As the B55 carries communication capabilities, it required additional certification by the InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore for “Type Approval” for the watch to operate in Singapore. This process took about 10 months, and this is why the watch is only being introduced to the Singapore market in Feb 2016 when the watch was announced in BaselWorld 2015.
The watch charges via a small magnetically connected port (like the Apple Macbook power attachment) on the side of the case. Interestingly each charge will provide the B55 with two months of autonomy.
The Breitling Exospace B55, in our view, opens the door to lead this new genre of Smart/Connected watches. This is the first we have seen and tested which is specially equipped for a specific application (in the B55, flying in the cockpit) but also one which is the first we have encountered where the communications between watch and Smartphone is two way.
Breitling Exospace B55. Nicely designed and a good looker.
The charging port can be seen on the case side, at 9 o’clock. A wire with one end to connect to the watch magnetically, and the other end being a standard USB connector is provided.
The watch is beautifully made, quite large at 44mm x 15.112mm, but not uncomfortably so, especially as it is constructed from a titanium case and the quartz movement is not quite as heavy as a maillechort or brass mechanical movement.
The competitive landscape is quite bare. The other Smart/Connected offerings are probably a generation behind in our view. Those from technology companies, like the Apple Watch, the Huawei Watch, the Samsung Gear communicate mostly in one dimension to the Smartphone. In addition all these devices look like electronic gadgets, and toys. None feature nicely designed or finished cases or any dial to speak of (just a display screen), as a case in point.
Offerings by traditional watch companies are still in its early stages of maturity, with the leaders probably being the TAG Heuer Connected. The TAG Heuer Connected looks like a traditional wristwatch, even though it too lacks a physical dial. The dial is a display on the screen. But the fit and finish of the case and band is solid. TAG has also partnered with tech giant Google to deliver the technology. A very smart move. However, the current TAG offering is still rather limited. Other than the ability to change dials, it offer some fitness features, but are very limited in its capabilities. The watch does display of alerts from the phone, but not much else. The TAG play is on the downloadable dials, and perhaps future proofing with features/functions not yet available.
Traditional sports oriented watches like those by Polar, Suunto, Garmin are arguably more well developed and advanced. All offer the ability to attach sensors like GPS, heart rate monitors, cadence sensors, step sensors, power meters. And the ability of the watch to record the data, and then download to a smart device (though most often a computer or to a website) for storage and analysis. But none of these look like a presentable watch which can appeal to a horology enthusiast. All are made of plastic, and designed to pair with sports attire.
On the other hand, the Breitling Exospace B55 looks like a high end watch. The fit and finish of the titanium case is nice. It has a real and nicely designed and finished dial. The watch features are excellent. And when connected to a Smartphone, it works flawlessly, leveraging on the strengths of each platform. Communication between watch and phone is two way, and quite comprehensive, at least for the targeted aviation intended market.
Is there more that can be delivered by a Smart/Connected Watch? We certainly think and hope so, but for now, we think the Breitling Exospace B55 is the next wave forward. What do you think?
Breitling Exospace B55 Technical Specs
Caliber Breitling B55 (Manufacture)
Movement SuperQuartz™, thermocompensated quartz electronic, analog and 12/24 hr LCD digital display, display backlighting, EOL indicator
Chronograph 1/100th second, max. 99 hrs 59 min. 59 sec., flyback function, electronic tachymeter, chronograph (lap timer, flight times)
Calendar Digital, perpetual, with weeks indication
Case Black titanium
Back With screws
Battery type/life Rechargeable battery
Connectivity Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Water resistance 100 m (330 ft)
Bezel Unidirectional, ratcheted
Crown Non screw-locked, two gaskets, integrated pushpiece
Crystal Sapphire, glareproofed both sides
Diameter 46.00 mm
Strap TwinPro
Interhorn width 24/20 mm
Thickness 15.25 mm
Weight (without strap) 80,00 gr.
Other functions Countdown timer, 7 daily alarms, CountDown/CountUp Clock, (max. 99 days, 23 hrs 59 min. 59.99 sec.) with independent alarm, UTC worldtime; pairing possiblity (Bluetooth Low Energy) with a smartphone (dedicated Application) for data transfer and «remote» settings
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Derek Caelin
This was a Steam Sale purchase for me. Several reviews connect The Vanishing of Ethan Carter to two of my favorites, Gone Home and Dear Esther. There's a lot of similarities between them - like those other titles The Vanishing of Ethan Carter does make use of environmental storytelling, first person narration, etc, which I tend to love. But I also encountered some frustration in figuring out what I was supposed to be doing. The experience reminds me exactly how hard it is to balance player freedom and coherent storytelling.
You enter this world in a vibrant wood, following a train track. The sun is setting and there is an atmosphere of decay. The developers, The Astronauts, know how to make use of the Unreal engine. The sun is setting over a lake - in the lengthening shadows you can see, far off in the distance, a collection of houses that you will visit. Knowing that talented storytellers know how to use environmental guidance and foreshadowing I set off, following the train tracks. I observe a few eerie clues that something violent happened - blood on a train car, a stain on the tracks, and, thinking it will all be explained as I press on, I move forward.
In doing so I apparently missed a sizable chunk of content. As it turned out a murder took place on those tracks - something I could have explored and thereby come to understand a little about the characters. But, not being told that it was my goal to inspect all sites like a crime scene, I moved forward, missing out on exposition and plot.
The first thing I am told is that "this game is a narrative experience that does not hold your hand." Definitely true. Unfortunately the game also assumes that the player will figure out some important details without being explained - something that doesn't always happen. So much of my experience with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was wandering around, looking for something that would move the game forward, instead of experiencing the story the authors wanted to tell.
That story, by the way, was fairly gripping. I ended up loading up a walkthrough and consulting it when I got too stuck. Generally I don't enjoy this, because like the game to push me along at its own pace, but this seemed to be the best gameplay compromise. If you like Lovecraftian horror, you might really like this game.
In Dear Esther, you as the player is pretty much on rails. You are presented with a glowing tower in the distance and a trail that will get you there, and you push on along the rails that the game has set for you. Gone Home, too, sets up the goal and then keeps the player on a fairly tight leash. You are given hints of what has happened in this house, and then set up with environments to explore and doors to unlock. The next step (the door that needs to be opened) is always fairly clear. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter creates a world every bit as vibrant, and more ambitious in scope, but struggles to make the "what's next" clear to the player.
Lesson learned - environmental storytelling can be a powerful tool for crafting a player experience. But minimizing the information you give to a player can be dangerous, especially when you're trying to explain mechanics.
Available on Steam for Windows.
In Games Blog Tags atomosphere, dear esther, environmental storytelling, game design, gone home, lovecraft, minimalist games design, murder, rails, storytelling, The vanishing of Ethan Carter
In researching narrative games for my games studio business plan (stay tuned) I came across Her Story, which Rock Paper Shotgun says "Her Story might be the best FMV game ever made." The player is a person digging through a police detective terminal to review a fictional 1994 murder. Its dedication to the VHS era of the 90s reminds me of Gone Home. The Guardian's review is compelling.
I'm intrigued. Will update once I've played it.
Update: 7/26/2015
A really interesting game. The player watches video clips - spliced up segments of interviews. You hear the woman explain some element of the story, drop some pertinent words. The only mechanic is using a search bar to find the next pertinent video. You're writing down key words, listening for contradictions. I loved the gameplay and even enjoyed the story.
In Games Blog Tags detective, her story, interactive story
Sunless Sea
Sunless Sea is set in the same universe as Fallen London, a delightful free to play text based adventure. Both games revolve around Fallen London (London was stolen by bats, you see, and taken a mile underground). They represent probably the best writing I've found in games - dark, quirky, and dripping with character.
Sunless Sea benefits from having a sound track, sound design, etc. It's clearly of the same mold as it's browser-based sister game, but more so.
I like games like this. World building, atmosphere, and story are rare.
Available on PC, Mac, and Linux.
In Games Blog Tags atmosphere, failbetter, fallen london, music, story, sunless sea
Gardenarium
The art style for Gardenarium looks trippy as hell and wonderful. Music sounds great as well. This will be my weekend experiment.
$5 Mac, PC, Linux.
The appeal of the game is in its visual aesthetic and whimsical characters. Occasionally set pieces are very dramatic (climbing the mountain to consult with that guru from the trailer, for example) but I had trouble figuring out where I was supposed to be. The first person you meet in the game satirically tells you that "your one and only objective is to win" - tacitly asking the player to cast aside this goal oriented thinking - but after the impact of the games psychedelic visuals wore off I found myself losing focus.
In Games Blog Tags exploration, games, linux, mac, pc, psychedelic
I Published The Renewal Project
I've created a 10-minute interactive story about the captain of a colony vessel about to embark on a long journey into deep space. I created a narrative and experienced first-hand the challenge of making branching story lines.
I've enjoyed a few of the text-based adventures I've played and wanted to try my hand at a story-based, agile project. It was a new process for me. I started with textadventures.co.uk's Squiffy - a cool, in development project, that helps you to create simple text adventures. It generated an HTML, javascript, css, and jquery.min.js script, which I edited using ShiftEdit. I compiled the whole thing into an apk using PhoneGap.
All of it done in the browser (save for generating an android store keystore). I love the future.
The Renewal Project is playable for free in the browser or on Google Play.
In Games Blog Tags app development, browser, browser development, captain, choice, colony ship, gamebook, gamedev, google play, narrative, phonegap, shiftedit, space, squiffy, text, text adventure, textadventures-co-uk
Spondre
Spondre is a text-based narrative game that you play in browser. It's a 10 minute, very well written experience. Proves how effective the written word can be in a game, even today.
In Games Blog Tags browser, mystery, narrative, text, textadventures-co-uk
A Dark Room
A text based game I'm playing. Really liking the minimalist story about the building of a society after... something... has happened.
Play in browser here.
In Games Blog Tags browser, minimalist, post-apocalyptic, text
Spoke on Games for Impact with the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan
3D Printed Sunglasses
Developed a Global Data Collection & Visualization Infrastructure
Trained Activists and Campaigners on 2FA Digital Security
Spoke at University of Maryland: "Tools of Empathy and War"
Volunteered as Data Analyst for Hurricane Florence Emergy Response Efforts
Mycroft AI in a Book
Built a Data-Scraping Skill for Mycroft
Developed a Social Media scraping Twitter Bot - using entirely free tools
Mapped Daycares and Childcare Centers in Northern Virginia
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closed as primarily opinion-based by chicks, Pierre.Vriens, Gaius, Tensibai♦ Dec 4 '18 at 10:16
I've never seen ops dev used before this post. Searching around I see things like this article that has it in the title but nowhere in the article. Then there's this article from 2015:
So in this way, when “OpsDev” happens, IT ops teams are helping developers do their jobs, but developers are also architecting applications with IT ops in mind, helping them utilize resources better. The days of developers simply creating applications and “throwing them over the fence” to testers and IT ops teams are over.
which seems to define OpsDev as "development in a company that practices DevOps" (or more cynically, "development done correctly").
Finally, there's https://dzone.com/articles/opsdev-is-coming :
What Is OpsDev? OpsDev means that the dependencies of the various application components must be understood and modeled first before the development process begins. In addition, the consideration for infrastructure stability, environment modeling, security and audit/compliance measures are first and foremost. Application components are stubs and they do not need to be in their final forms. Secondly, the environments in which the components will be deployed for production must be modeled. Thirdly, the processes to deploy the various components to the target environments must be automated as much as possible.
Again, this sounds to me just like normal, modern development.
DevOps is a problematic term because it has many different definitions. OpsDev, on the other hand, appears to have essentially no definitions. From a personal perspective, I would mentally substitute "development" for every instance of "OpsDev" and ignore the term; it appears to be just another instance of people inventing new terminology to describe old concepts so that they sound more exciting.
We had this once smb used spontaneously and less formally to underline IaaS programming but also Dockerization provided by the Ops team. – Peter Nov 24 '18 at 3:37
In the operations team DevOps does not trust developers to make changes to the production infrastructure. Developers want to focus on their application and the value it delivers to the organization. Developers want to know the characteristics of the infrastructure but do not want to build it or operate it.
The operations team is absolutely critical to the success of DevOps methodologies.
The developers must be able to trust that the infrastructure has specific characteristics: characteristics like performance, connectivity, availability, and uniformity.
To enable this trust, I believe that the operations teams are going to need to become more like developers. I call this OpsDev.
OpsDev is not simply about having a scripted build for servers. OpsDev is about having a full infrastructure that is built and maintained automatically from a set of source-controlled configuration files, and then having development and test environments that are built using the same methodology.
Source: https://www.astroarch.com/tvp_strategy/devops-requires-opsdev-time-change-35139/
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What is the difference between SRE and DevOps?
What is the difference between Sysadmin and DevOps Engineer?
What's the difference between feature flags and feature toggles (if any)?
What is the difference between continuous deployment to continuous delivery?
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The Politics of fear 4
Sane people, according to former counselor to ex-President Bill Clinton, Bill Curry are those who acknowledge global warming. Those who doubt global warming must be, by implication, mad. Within global warming circles, the dispute is not over whether such a phenomena exists but rather how much of the problem is caused by fossil fuels which, if extremist environmentalists have their way, soon will be rationed. Curry has not yet ventured an opinion on the sanity of rabid environmentalists who would prefer the price of gas to rise to unaffordable levels so as to spur conservation measures.
But forget all this quibbling. A new crisis looms:
Years from now — probably not many years — historians and everyone else will wonder how we wasted so much time talking trash with the country in such peril. How could we have so many [Democrat primary] debates and miss so many big issues?...
To appreciate the oversight, consider two words that never came up in any debate: food and water. It turns out we're running out of both. It's hard to imagine a worse crisis — OK, running out of air — but from the debates you wouldn't know there was a problem…
Sane people, those who acknowledge global warming, talk a lot about rising sea levels. They should focus more on falling water tables. It's the water we drink and it's happening now.
The Mississippi River Valley Aquifer, a vast underground reservoir, serves seven states. Water in its wells is falling about 2 feet a year, double the historical average. The U.S. Geological Survey predicts parts of it will go dry next year.
The Ogallala or High Plains Aquifer serves eight states that are often called America's breadbasket. We're emptying parts of it 100 times faster than it can refill. How long can it take to refill an aquifer? Much of the Ogallala's water was left there in the last Ice Age.
Water is the oil of the 21st century. If you think people got grumpy in Carter-era gas lines, wait till they start queuing up at the supermarket. Oil addiction has made America weaker and poorer. If the "breadbasket" moves north to a warmer, water-wealthy Canada, we'll endure a reversal of fortune such as none but our worst enemies ever predicted.
Fear and love, says Cardinal John Henry Newman, are the great motivators in human history. Fear and love, “from the moment you are born, until the moment you die.”
Some things, unlike aquifers, never change. The Republicans do not have a corner on the politics of fear.
See Politics of fear 1, 2, 3
Labels: Bill Clinton, Curry, the politics of fear
When comparing my experiences traveling through the Midwest and the South and the people I've met from those areas with my experiences living in the clone cities of San Francisco and Seattle, I'm able to say that there is a very mean spirited strain at the core of modern liberalism. It wants to force people, silence people and enforce its vision on the world and can't tolerate any impediments to that vision.
Everyone's concerned about the mark we leave on the world, but I think alot of leftists have hooked onto environmentalism because a large part of its agenda includes punishing entrepreneurs. If the public decides that they're OK with subsidizing, raised taxes and maybe even rationing then the leftists are one step closer to their vision of society.
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Mountain Bizworks and the Asheville Artist Alliance Announce a Holiday Party and Holiday Art Sale Dec 17th at Jubilee!
Posted in Arts 2 People, Asheville, Mountain BizWorks, tagged Art, Artist Alliance, Arts2People, Asheville, Asheville Area Arts Council, business, entrepreneur, holiday, Jubilee!, Mountain BizWorks, Naomi Langsner, party, sale, workshops on November 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
(Asheville, NC) Come enjoy Mountain BizWorks’ Holiday Party featuring the Holiday Art Sale! This is your chance to buy local and support WNC artists by doing some holiday shopping and getting that unique arts gift for your loved one! Finger food, light refreshments, cash bar, music, awards, and more will happen during the Holiday Party portion of the day, but feel free to come early and do some shopping!
This event takes place at Jubilee! located at 46 Wall Street in downtown Asheville. The Holiday Sale will take place from 2-7pm, feel free to drop in at anytime! This is a great opportunity to get to know some of the participants in the Asheville Artist Alliance and to informally meet the staff at MountainBizWorks.
The Holiday Party starts at 5pm going through 7pm. During the Holiday Party Mountain Bizworks will be honoring and thanking their clients, staff, and community members. There will also be awards given out for noted businesses of 2009 and supporters. The Holiday Party is open to the public; please RSVP to naomi@mountainbizworks.org or 828.253.2834 x27 to let her know that you will be attending.
For 20 years, Mountain BizWorks has been in the hope business, the dream business, the opportunity business. Mountain BizWorks values serving all individuals who aspire to be entrepreneurs and they believe that people should be able to create a better life for themselves and their families through business ownership. MountainBizWorks believes that successful businesses create long-term social benefits and economic prosperity, particularly in under-served communities. They value the dignity and work of each individual and encourage self-sufficiency, accountability, and cooperation. Furthermore, they value being a community that bridges the gap between entrepreneurs of varying incomes, geographies andethnicities. Mountain BizWorks is an entrepreneurial, non-profit organization that operates with a double bottom line of social impact and financial viability — ensuring a permanent resource for the Western North Carolina region.
In 2008, Mountain BizWorks was able to provide its services (such as business development classes) to 988 entrepreneurs (65% were low-income, 61% were women, 22% were racial or ethnic minorities)
Those individuals created 159 businesses and expanded 310 businesses.
In turn, those businesses created 292 jobs and sustained 780 jobs.
They also made 64 loans totaling almost $1,002,000 and leveraging $1.3 Million.
The Asheville Artist Alliance is a collaboration between Mountain BizWorks, Arts2People, and the Asheville Area Arts Council. The mission of the Asheville Artist Alliance is to provide assistance and opportunities to WNC artists for the development of business skills needed to succeed in their venue. The Asheville Artist Alliance is in its fifth year of producing Artist Seminar Series workshops and events, which are designed forWNC artists to provide assistance and opportunities to develop successful business skills. For more info visit: www.ashevilleartistalliance.com
Come celebrate 2009 with Mountain BizWorks and the Asheville Artist Alliance!
Event Details at a Glance:
Holiday Art Sale: 2-7pm
Holiday Party 5-7pm
Thursday December 17th
Jubilee!
46 Wall Street, Asheville
Light finger-food provided
RSVP for the Holiday Party
Naomi Langsner
(828)253-2834 ext. 27
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www.ashevilleartistalliance.com
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Larry Keel & Adam Aijala Announce a run of shows on the West Coast
Posted in Larry Keel Music, tagged Adam Aijala, guitar master, Hotel Utah, Humboldt Brews, larry keel, Mississippi Studios, Mountain Music, Tractor Tavern, Yonder Mountain String Band, Younder Mountain on November 10, 2009| 1 Comment »
Yonder Mountain String Band’s Adam Aijala is teaming up with fellow guitar virtuoso Larry Keel for a short run of acoustic shows on the West Coast. This is the first time these two bad-ass guitar players are going to tear it up on stage for their fans to enjoy. They’ll be bringing their wild riffs and antics to the stage from their experiences picking and jammim’ together backstage and at festivals throughout the years.
12/1 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
12/2 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
12/3 Ashland, OR Stillwater
12/4 Arcata, CA Humboldt Brews
12/5 San Francisco, CA Hotel Utah (2 shows)
Based out of Colorado, Yonder has been touring the country extensively for the past eleven years building a rabid fan base along the way. Hailing from Boulder’s Flat Irons, Yonder bends bluegrass, rock, and jam to create a sound that is all their own. Adam Aijala is a founding member of the band and brings his flat picking prowess and vocals to the group’s dynamic sound.
Meanwhile, Larry Keel hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and is a true master of mountain music. Over the years Larry Keel has become a world-class flatpicking guitarist, and that talent has earned him legendary status with fans and the highest respect amongst his musical peers. He’s performed with such industry icons as Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, Sam Bush, Norman Blake and many more.
This special tour will highlight the two musicians’ amazing guitar skills, songwriting, vocals and their ability to collaborate and create a new sound that fans of both acts will love. Don’t miss it.
Update on Keel and Natural Bridge’s Fall Tour!
Posted in Larry Keel Music, tagged ACOUSTIC GUITAR, bluegrass, concert, entertainment, flatpicking, Hat Factory, larry keel, Music, Natural Bridge, newgrass, Tony Rice on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Keel and Natural Bridge pounced on Pittsburgh PA last week, enjoying the newly renovated Rex Theater down town.. super warm welcome from the fine folks there, and an energetic crowd of Pennsylvanians who definitely love this wide open Blue Ridge Mountain Music.. can’t wait to return!
Friday night found the band raising the roof in Richmond, VA at the Hat Factory- wonderful restored old hat factory, for real– with state of the art production, stage, seating, bar, brick and wood and huge timber beams.. the INCOMPARABLE HERO OF THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR, TONY RICE joined the band for this special evening.. the chemistry between Larry and Tony and Natural Bridge is so special and unique.. using nothing but microphones (no electronic plug ins when you play with Tony Rice!), these expert musicians create the most astonishing sounds and tones– from ultra delicate and soulful, to rockin wild improvisation.. Bluegrass standards like “Teardrops in My Eyes” and “Salt Creek” are always a blast to play with Tony– and he shines on Larry’s original tunes “Pioneers” and “Mountain Song”.. but it’s dazzling to hear him go WAY out there on jazz trips like “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis, and Larry’s “Trance”.. the show was simply outstanding- wildly enthusiastic crowd commotion.. now we’re chompin at the bit for the next Tony shows this month: Raleigh and Charleston, SC in a couple weeks!
Great time at the Attitudes night club in Blacksburg VA on Saturday night– very cool, jazzy music club vibe.. love the balcony seating and dance floor setting– intimate yet conducive to rockin out! Which is what we did– and, to make things even more special, we were joined by great Blue Ridge fiddler, Shannon Wheeler, for the whole second set.. he KNOWS how to play that thing– great Grass tone, and able to jump on anything we throw out there.. he’s got awesome energy— you haven’t heard the last of him!!
Photos by Jon C Hancock:
CD Review: Mad Tea Party Zombie Boogie EP
Posted in Asheville, Mad Tea Party, tagged Ami Worthen, Asheville, Jason Krekel, Mad Tea Party, Music, vinyl, Zombie Boogie on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
BY BRENT FLEURY
Bold Life www.boldlife.com
Zombie Boogie EP
themadteaparty.com
While I would have liked to have been able to review this EP for last month’s issue, the fact is…it hadn’t been released yet. Still, I feel we’re close enough to Halloween to give Zombie Boogie a look-see. Besides the kitsch of releasing a Halloween recording, Mad Tea Party has taken the extra cool step of releasing it on seven-inch vinyl. Right on, guys! While only four cuts deep and about 12 minutes long, it’s so much fun that one could easily listen to it several times in a row (I did). With a grooving, party vibe which hearkens back to spooky sock hops of decades past, it’s the perfect recording to get any party — Halloween or not — off on the right foot. As is frequently the case with Mad Tea Party, the production value on this release has that wonderful feeling that in was recorded “Motown style” — lots of reverb on the guitar and even some echo on the drums — creating a lot of depth as well as a sense of time and place. Ami Worthen’s voice pays perfect homage to the teenybopper idols of the 1950s and guitarist Jason Krekel could easily duel it out with a guy like Brian Setzer and walk away victorious. I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention the absolutely swingin’ saxophone work of guest Henry Westmoreland, which for me is the icing on this rockin’ uke-abilly release by one of Asheville’s favorite and most-talented duos.
Acoustic Syndicate Announces post-Thanksgiving show at the Orange Peel Saturday, Nov 28th
Posted in Acoustic Syndicate, Asheville, tagged Acoustic Syndicate, bryon McMurry, Cleveland County, Fitz McMurry, folkrock, Frank Ruggiero, Jay Sanders, Mountain Music, Music, north carolina, orange peel, SmileFest, Steve McMurry, Terra Firma, WNCW on November 9, 2009| 2 Comments »
Acoustic Syndicate, one of “North Carolina’s best kept secrets” is returning this holiday season for their very special traditional after Thanksgiving show at the Orange Peel on Saturday November 28th.
Photo By Bright Life Photography
Known for its high-energy, positive sound, Acoustic Syndicate delivers a genre-defying performance, masterfully blending its eclectic influences with trademark finesse that only 17 years of cohesive teamwork can bring.
Acoustic Syndicate is the product of Cleveland County’s McMurry clan. Guitarist Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry is joined by his cousins, Bryon McMurry on banjo and Fitz McMurry on drums. The three McMurrys also bring a trademark vocal trio that only a lifetime of singing together can deliver.
Joining the McMurrys in 1998 on bass, Jay Sanders has become part of the family. A long time resident of Asheville, NC, his seamless blending of musical genres and driving style brought a completion to the band’s sound that continues to characterize and define. When not with Acoustic Syndicate, Jay can now be seen playing with Donna The Buffalo or his own group, The E.Normus Trio.
Formed in 1992, Acoustic Syndicate has had a long and storied career. They spent well over a dozen years on the road, playing at the original Bonnaroo, MerleFest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Memphis in May and many many other clubs, festivals and events.
The band had the distinct honor of being invited to perform as a part of FarmAid in 2001, a significant occasion in respect to their family’s agrarian history. The McMurry family are farmers, and continue to cultivate the same land their family has for generations.
In 2005, the band decided to hang up the towel for a little while. They put their touring career on hold with a legendary five hour performance at SmileFest. In a recent interview with Frank Ruggiero from the Mountain Times in Boone, NC, Steve McMurry said “With the music industry in dire straits, the band would have had to commit to another five years of heavy touring to sustain itself. None of us really could see being gone from our families and people for that long a period of time… We had a great run of it, and thought we’d just call it quits and be regular people for a while.”
But the band’s audience felt otherwise. “People wouldn’t let us quit playing,” McMurry said. “They’d keep calling and calling, so after a couple years we decided we’d get together and see if we still knew how to play.” The results speak for themselves, and McMurry said the band is now performing without the pressures touring so often brings, and rather playing for the fun of it.
Final Song from the legendary SmileFest “last show”:
In 2009, Acoustic Syndicate was honored by being voted the 6th top artist of the last 20 years by the listeners of Western North Carolina’s WNCW radio station.
Their discography includes six official releases including two for Sugar Hill Records. Their 2004 effort “Terra Firma” was voted the number one album of the year by the listeners of WNCW, and 2005’s “Long Way Round” placed number seven. But it is not going to end there. Acoustic Syndicate plans on cutting a new record. The band will visit the studio this winter to craft an album of all-new material.
When Ruggiero asked about the music of Acoustic Syndicate, Steve McMurry replied “It’s high energy with a definite rock ’n’ roll vibe, but acoustic.”
“I don’t like getting pigeonholed, because we do so many things – bluegrass, soul, funk – whatever feels good,” McMurry said. “And the music we write is not typical of what you hear on the radio, either. We try to stay away from that mainstream cookie-cutter variety, and, honestly, I think people appreciate us doing that. I think there needs to be an alternative.”
Acoustic Syndicate’s all about making sure it’s an honest alternative, a sound that’s 100 percent its own, but steeped in a rich musical history each band member appreciates. McMurry said the band’s influences span the musical gamut, including the Grateful Dead, Little Feat, The Police, The Who, Peter Gabriel, Steely Dan, John Hartford and Bill Frisell.
“I know all this stuff seems weird to be lumping in on top of a bluegrass ensemble, but it works – this is the stuff we grew up listening to,” he said. “Some of the class rock ’n’ roll is there, but also the more traditional music. We grew up singing in a church, and mountain music, ballads that our parents and grandparents taught us … that comes out in there, especially with the harmonies we put together. It’s a veritable melting pot of different influences.”
McMurry’s quick to assert, though, that the music’s never been about the band, but rather for the audience.
“The material we’ve written has consistently had a positive message to it, and very little of it is centered toward the individual,” he said. “We try to send a good message in a very joyful manner, a very pleasant, uplifting manner. People recognize that, and I think that’s why they like it. It’s not about any one of us in the group; it’s about the relationship in the group and the people who listen to our music, and we’re just going to try to keep that conversation going.”
“The dynamics come from 12 years of traveling on the road together,” McMurry said. “We’ve been playing together long enough now to pretty much know what everyone else is doing. It’s more of a reflex action now than anything else. We love to get together and play together, so we’ve been very fortunate in that regard.”
SHOW DETAILS:
Saturday November 28th
The Orange Peel
Ages 18+,
$15 adv/ $17 d.o.s
101 Biltmore Ave
http://www.theorangepeel.net
www.acousticsyndicate.com
“Too bad most contemporary pop music doesn’t have the organic elegance of Acoustic Syndicate.” -Vintage Guitar
“North Carolina’s best kept secret” -Star Maker Machine
Ukulele band Mad Tea Party will rock the Flying Money Arts Center
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By Jon Busdeker
blog.al.com
Mad Tea Party, featuring ukulele-player Ami Worthen, will play the Flying Monkey Arts Center tonight
HUNTSVILLE, AL — In the 1950s, when hillbilly music mixed with rock ‘n’ roll, the world got rockabilly. Now, Mad Tea Party has taken rockabilly one step further, merging it with – what else? – the ukulele.
The result: raw and rockin’ uke-abilly.
“It’s such a fun instrument,” said ukulele player Ami Worthen.
But Worthen doesn’t play a boring, ol’ brown ukulele like Tiny Tim did. Hers is custom-made by a company in California, and it looks like a hot-rod car.
“It’s pretty badass,” Worthen said.
Mad Tea Party – made up of Worthen and guitarist /drummer Jason Krekel – will be at the Flying Monkey Arts Center tonight. The show starts at 8. Tickets are $5.
Worthen and Krekel, who both live in Asheville, N.C., met through mutual friends. The two clicked and formed Mad Tea Party.
“Becoming a musician was like jumping into a rabbit hole,” said Worthen about the “Alice in Wonderland” reference.
Since 2004, the duo’s been touring and releasing CDs and records, including “Big Top, Soda Pop” and “Found a Reason.” At tonight’s show, the band will play several tracks from its most recent EP, “Zombie Boogie.” The release features songs such as “Cemetery Stomp,” “You Spooked Me” and “Zombie Boogie.”
Aren’t vampires all the rage now? Why zombies?
“We like the campiness of it,” Worthen said. “It’s just spooky and fun.”
“Zombie Boogie” is available for digital download and on 7-inch vinyl. If you buy the vinyl edition, you receive a download card unleashing a surprise bonus track.
Worthen didn’t want to ruin the surprise, but here’s a hint: Steve Miller and magic.
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Home 2019 The ESCUnited Team celebrates #100DaysToEurovision
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The ESCUnited Team celebrates #100DaysToEurovision
By Connor Terry
As of today, we are officially 100 days away from the Grand Final for the 64th edition of the contest, and in order to celebrate, the official Eurovision channel has issued a call to celebrate the occasion. The contest has been hosted by 26 different countries in it’s long history, and will be returning to Israel for the 3rd time in May, 20 years after Dana International won and brought the contest to Jerusalem in 1999.
The team here at ESCUnited are from all across the world, and we each have a unique memory of the contest that we cherish.
James – “Lordi winning in 2006 with “Hard Rock Hallelujah,” was my favorite memory, as it proved any genre could win. Maybe it is just my imagination or perspective, but I think it has injected a lot of fun into the competition for the years after it won. This was the winner that made me realize Eurovision is as much a party as it is a contest.”
Stefan – “My favorite memory was seeing my country (Serbia) win the contest in our first year as an independent country back in 2007.”
Robert – “My honest-to-God favourite moment in all of Eurovision was Stockholm, 2016, in the arena watching the grand final results. It all came down to how many televotes Russia got. I knew that they needed over four hundred, so as soon as they said “three” I knew Jamala had won. I just remember my now-fiancé turning to me with tears of joy on his face and flinging himself into my arms, crying with sheer ecstatic happiness. An utterly incredible moment.”
Zachary – “Actually being there to see it in person, specifically the reveal of the finalists from the semis. I don’t know how to describe it other than being surreal and over before you even knew it had begun. It never gets old!”
Calvin – “In 2014, I got to attend Eurovision for the first time. At the family final, my first live glimpse of the Eurovision experience, I encountered this woman screaming rapturously about Azerbaijan’s entry. I went up to her to ask if she might be from Azerbaijan, as she really was quite enthusiastic. She turns to me and says ‘No, I’m just really happy to be here.'”
Connor – “I think I have two memories that really stick out to me. When I first started to “cover” Eurovision in the Twitter-sphere, I got a phone call from a friend who thought I had been hacked. She said, “You just started tweeting in Albanian and I was super concerned.” Americans are silly that way. But my favorite memory was the second semi-final in Kyiv actually. Here in Oklahoma, May is tornado season, and so we actually had a massive tornado heading through the area right when the show began. I ended up watching the show on my phone, struggling to find service in the basement of the university and started standing on chairs to get the feed to load. I needed to know who qualified!”
Since we’re all over the world, one has to wonder: How did we each learn about the contest?
Stefan – “I first learned about the contest in 2003, after seeing a promo on TV. We didn’t participate that year, but Every Way That I Can was huge hit that year.”
Connor – “Here’s a fun story. So Back in February 2015 I was minding my own business and listening to some ABBA songs on YouTube, when suddenly the auto-play feature switched to something completely different. I had ended up on Conchita Wurst’s winning performance from Copenhagen and I was CAPTIVATED. Like I was so confused, but literally in awe of everything I was watching. A drag queen, in a beard, giving a show stopping performance for 3 minutes? I couldn’t get enough. I ended up tracking down a live-stream of the 2014 grand final and watched the whole thing until 3 AM. Ever since then I’ve been a die-hard Eurovision fan and I’ve only missed two live shows to date! (Not bad for an American fan 6-8 hours behind Europe I’d say.)”
Robert – “I learned about Eurovision through friends at school talking about it I think. However, I had literally no interest in it whatsoever until 2014/5 when I started dating an American who is a huge fan. He slowly (and very subtly) got me interested in it. And now, I’m a bigger fan than most of the people I know outside of escYOUnited!”
Calvin – “At a weekly school assembly, a pair of students announced that they’d be hosting a screening of the first semifinal in 2011. I was slightly intrigued (and knew I loved ABBA!) so decided to go. I’d love to say that “Čaroban,” my favorite in that semifinal and still to this day my favorite entry ever, sealed the deal, but what really did it was the trashy, kitschy “Boom Boom.” My friends and I kept singing the chorus to it for weeks after, and I was forever hooked.”
Zachary – “I was doing study abroad in London in Spring 2003. I went to G-A-Y to catch Lisa Scott-Lee and Jemini was opening for her and people were so not into it. I sorta understood they were representing the UK at some song contest, but when they finished last, everyone was talking about them scoring nil points. I started learning more about Eurovision then.”
James – “My grandmother was a huge fan of Johnny Logan, so of course I have a sentimental attachment to “Hold Me Now,” his winning entry from 1987 and the first contest I watched.”
What are you looking forward to seeing or experiencing moving into Tel Aviv?
Calvin – “One of my favorite parts of any Eurovision season is the relationship we build with the artists during promotional season as they show us who they are, what their songs mean to them, what they bring to the table beyond their Eurovision songs, and how they perform live. Already this year, I’ve found myself blown away by an acoustic rendition of a national final favorite I didn’t take to in its original version, and I can’t wait to see more things like that as we hear more from the Eurovision class of 2019.”
James – “Planning food and drinks for a Eurovision party and scouring the Instagram pages of representatives for ideas. I’ll have to do a cocktail with Dr. Pepper Zero as it seems Jonida Maliqi is a fan. And if Michael Rice (United Kingdom) makes it, I’ll have to do some sort of fish and chips as an homage to his time working at a chippy near Hartlepool.”
Robert – “Ooo so much! The joy of discovering new songs and new artists from across Europe and further afield, as well as Serhat’s song reveal! I’m sure we will have some fun drama to get stuck into as well, because, well, it’s Eurovision…”
Zachary – “Getting in the best shape possible so I can sashay around the warm weather in Tel Aviv. Actually, I am looking forward to the whole process, from the national selection shows, to the final revamps of songs, both good and bad.”
Connor – “Each year I find myself becoming really attached to these artists and their entries more and more, and so I think I’m excited to watch these individuals have fun, represent their countries, and start their international careers. I’m also really looking forward to building relationships with the artists over social media as I did with Laura Rizzotto and SuRie last year, it was something that I didn’t expect to happen but it made me feel like I was a part of the fan base despite being 12,000 miles away.”
Stefan – “I am looking forward to the numerous national selections and the songs that we’ll hear. I’m excited for the one’s that will win and the ones that don’t.”
Do you have anything else you’d like to add?
Connor – “Eurovision means something crazy special to me since it reminds me of my recently deceased grandmother. She’s the one who introduced me to the world of music, putting me in church choir at a very age. Everytime I hear a song that gives me the chills, or I’m belting “Euphoria” in the shower, I feel connected to her again. But aside from that, I want to give a huge shoutout to the team and the readers. When I signed on to cover our social media accounts, I had no idea that my life was going to change for ever, and that I was going to be interacting with so many people worldwide on a daily basis. I hope you enjoy the content the team and I produce, and that we can continue to be your favorite Eurovision news site!”
Zach – “My friends don’t get Eurovision, but they can screw off. It means something to me. My parents watched Eurovision 2014 with me and when Conchita won, it opened up an opportunity for my dad and I to talk about my coming out process and who I am as a gay man. Further, he became quite the Conchita fan, texting me when she would drop a new song. No one can take that from me. They can have RuPaul’s drag race; I’ll take the creativity that Eurovision produces any day!”
Stefan – “Eurovision is full of surprises. Just remember when Germany gave Russia 12 points in 2015?”
James – “As the referee says before a boxing match, ‘touch gloves, let’s have a clean fight and may the best country win.”
There you have it, everyone. We here at ESCUnited want to wish #YOU a happy #100DaysToEurovision!
How will #YOU celebrate today? Share your thoughts with us on our forum or join the discussion on our social media!
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Despite being American, Connor loves all things Eurovision. He has been watching the contest actively since 2014, and currently serves as the Social Media Coordinator at ESCUnited. Outside of the contest, Connor works in higher education with college students and occasionally plays video games.
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Joiner, Clark, Loy honored as WGCA All-American Scholars
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Publication #HS1261
Topics: Immokalee REC | Horticultural Sciences | Ozores-Hampton, Monica | Li, Yuncong | Vegetable Production -- Miami Dade County | Beans
Snap Bean Soil Fertility Program in Miami-Dade County1
Monica Ozores-Hampton, Qiang Zhu, and Yuncong Li2
Vegetable production in Miami-Dade County, FL, provides a significant contribution to local and state economies. The total vegetable acreage in 2012 was 29,703 acres (USDA 2012). Snap bean and pole bean, sweet corn, tomato, boniato (sweet potato), and squash are the major vegetables grown in this area (Table 1). In 2012, snap bean comprised the largest portion of the total acreage. This document explores weather conditions, basic soil properties, and fertilizer recommendations for snap bean in Miami-Dade County.
The ten-year average (January 2008–December 2017) air and soil temperatures were 73.9°F and 76.9°F, respectively, and average annual rainfall in Miami-Dade County, FL, was 54.3 inches (Table 2). The county has a subtropical climate: hot and wet summers from May to November and cool and dry winters from December to April. Frosts are recorded almost every winter, and flooding occasionally occurs during the summer.
In Miami-Dade County, there are two types of calcareous soils: rocky or gravelly soils and marl soils (Li 2013). Both soils have porous limestone bedrock and a pH of 7.4 to 8.4. The rocky soils are well drained and contain less than 2% organic matter content (Li 2013). Marl soils form a 2 to 72 inch layer above the bedrock, contain 10–30% organic carbon, and can be prone to flooding (Li 2013). The 1996 USDA soil survey classified the typical rocky soil as Krome (loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, hypothermic Lithic Udorthents) and the typical marl soil as Biscayne (loamy, carbonatic, hyperthermic, shallow Typic Fluvaquents).
The high soil pH may result in considerable loss of nitrogen (N) through volatilization of ammonia. In these soils, the availability of phosphorus (P), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and manganese (Mn) is relatively low because of potential precipitation (Figure 1). The high calcium (Ca) concentration can reduce magnesium (Mg) uptake due to competition, and the high concentration of bicarbonates can prevent Fe uptake by the crop (Li 2013).
Nutrient availabilities with different soil pH values (Silveira 2013). The width of the blue band illustrates the approximate availability of the specific nutrient. The wider the band, the more available the nutrient is, and the narrower the band, the less available the nutrient is for crop growth.
Snap Bean Fertilizer Recommendations
Snap bean is a legume, so it can fix N, but in most soils (especially where soil organic matter is less than 3.0%), snap bean requires N fertilizers to maximize yields (Slaton, Golden, DeLong, and Massey 2007). For snap bean, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) recommends 100 lb/acre N with a split application of 50% applied at planting and 50% banded on the side of the bed at first flower bud emergence (Elwakil and Mossler 2015; Simonne et al. 2012; Liu et al. 2017). Recent studies of snap beans in Homestead (southeast Miami-Dade County) found a range of optimum N rates between 70 to 100 lb/acre, which is within the UF/IFAS recommendations (Hochmuth and Hanlon 2016).
UF/IFAS phosphorous (P) recommendations in sandy soils (not applicable to Miami-Dade) are 80 to between 100 and120 lb/acre P2O5when Mehlich-3 (M-3) soil-extracted P concentrations are medium (26–45 ppm) to low (≤ 25 ppm), respectively (Liu et al. 2017). However, due to the lack of an official extractant for rocky or gravelly and marl soils, P and potassium (K) recommendations cannot be provided for vegetable production in Miami-Dade County. Efforts are still ongoing to identify an extractant for calcareous soils in Florida. Currently, UF/IFAS Extension Soil Testing Laboratory (ESTL) extracts P from calcareous soils using ammonium bicarbonate-diethylene triaminepentaacetic acid (AB-DTPA) with a critical value of 10 ppm. Previous field studies reported that most soils from vegetable fields in Miami-Dade County had AB-DTPA extractable P between 56 and 113 ppm and therefore no P was needed to grow the crop (Hochmuth and Hanlon 2016).
Potassium rates recommended by UF/IFAS in sandy soils (not applicable to Miami-Dade) are 80 to between 100 and120 lb/acre K2O for soils with medium (36–60 ppm) and low (≤ 35 ppm) M-3 soil-extracted K concentrations, respectively (Liu et al. 2017). Hochmuth and Hanlon (2016) suggested no K application was required for snap beans in Miami-Dade County when soil K concentrations determined by AB-DTPA extractant ranged from 71 to 281 ppm. This recommendation is not implemented by UF/IFAS-ESTL.
Since there is no recommended soil test extractant for Miami-Dade county soils, there are no official recommendations for applying P or K on vegetables. In the absence of a standard UF/IFAS recommendation for snap beans in Miami-Dade County, the typical bean fertilizer program used by growers in Miami-Dade is to broadcast 90%–100% of the P and band up to half the N and K at planting using preplant fertilizers such as 4-4-8, 5-5-8, 6-3-12, 6-12-12, or similar formulas. Growers use liquid or dry N and K fertilizer for side-dressing. Side-dressing with N and minors (Zn and Mn) is generally performed between the time the first true leaf has fully expanded and budbreak. Many growers will apply a low rate of P (such as 10 lb of a liquid 10-52-10) between budbreak and the pin bean stage and will also side-dress with K between the pin bean stage and harvest. Bean varieties bred under low N conditions tend to develop more problems with postharvest breakdown if levels of N are too high.
If a cover crop or organic soil amendment has been applied, then the amount of inorganic fertilizer can potentially be reduced by the amount of nutrients contributed by the organic matter content (Ozores-Hampton 2012). Foliar application of micronutrients in snap beans is recommended only if deficiency symptoms appear during the crop cycle (Zhang et al. 2017). The deficient values and adequate ranges of macronutrients and micronutrients for snap bean leaf are listed in Table 3.
Elwakil, W. M., and M. A. Mossler. 2015. Florida Crop/Pest Management Profiles: Snap Beans. CIR1231. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi032 (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN). 2018. “Report Generator.” http://fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/data/reports (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Hochmuth, G., D. Maynard, C. Vavrina, E. Hanlon, and E. Simonne. 2015. Plant Tissue Analysis and Interpretation for Vegetable Crops in Florida. HS 964. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep081 (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Hochmuth, G., and E. Hanlon. 2016. A Summary of N, P, and K Research with Snap Bean in Florida. SL 331. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/cv234 (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Liu, G., E. H. Simonne, K. T. Morgan, G. J. Hochmuth, M. Ozores-Hampton, and S. Agehara. 2017. Fertilizer Management for Vegetable Production in Florida. CV 296. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/cv296 (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Ozores-Hampton, M. 2012. “Developing a Vegetable Fertility Program Using Organic Amendments and Inorganic Fertilizers.” 22: 743–750.
Ozores-Hampton, M., E. J. McAvoy, M. Lamberts, and D. Sui. 2010. “A Survey of the Effectiveness of Current Methods Used for the Freeze Protection of Vegetables in South Florida.” 123: 128–133.
Silveira, M. L. 2013. “Soil Acidity and Its Relationship with Nutrient Use Efficiency.” Soil and Water Science Program, UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center. http://sfbfp.ifas.ufl.edu/articles/article_2013_february.shtml (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Simonne, E., G. Liu, A. Gazula, B. Hochmuth, L. Landrum, D. Gast, L. L. Davis, et al. 2012. “Yield Response of Overhead Irrigated Snap Bean to Nitrogen Rates.” . 125: 174–181.
Slaton, N. A., B. R. Golden, R. E. DeLong, and C. G. Massey. 2007. “Green Bean Yield as Affected by Nitrogen Fertilization Strategy.” In , edited by N. A. Stalton. Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2012 Census of Agriculture-County Data. https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_2_County_Level/Florida/st12_2_029_029.pdf (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Zhang, S., D. Seal, M. Ozores-Hampton, M. Lamberts, Y. C. Li, W. Klassen, and T. Olczyk. 2017. Snapbean Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida. HS853. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/tr005 (Accessed March 1, 2018)
Vegetable acreages of Miami-Dade County, FL, in 2012z
Snap bean and pole beans
Round, grape, and cherry tomato
Boniato (sweet potato)
3,000 (in 2010)
All squash
z Data from Ozores-Hampton, McAvoy, Lamberts, and Sui (2010) and USDA (2012).
Monthly minimum (Min.), average (Avg.), and maximum (Max.) air and soil temperature and rainfall from January 2008 to December 2017 in Miami-Dade County, FLz
Air Temperature (°F)
Soil Temperature (°F)
Total inches
z Data from Homestead weather station, Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) (2018).
Deficiency values and adequacy ranges of nutrients for snap bean leaf (most recently- matured whole trifoliate leaf plus petiole) at three sampling datesz
Before bloom
First bloom
Adequacy range
< 3.0
(ppm)
z Data from Hochmuth, Maynard, Vavrina, Hanlon, and Simonne (2015).
y N=nitrogen, P=phosphorus, K=potassium, Ca=calcium, Mg=magnesium, S=sulfur, Fe= iron, Mn=manganese, Zn=zinc, B=boron, Cu=copper, Mo=molybdenum.
This document is HS1261, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 2015. Revised March 2018. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Monica Ozores-Hampton, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department; Qiang Zhu, post-doctoral associate, Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center; and Yuncong Li, professor, Department of Soil and Water Sciences, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
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Q-and-A: NFL VP on little-discussed safety changes for 2019
John Kryk
You may not have heard or read much about some important safety-related changes are coming to the NFL this year.
From the helmets players wear, to the new rule that universally bans blind-side blocks, to the outright elimination of some dangerous drills in training camp. And more, including interesting findings from a preliminary study on the safest cleats.
In theory, the first three ought to help further reduce the number of concussions and major injuries the league’s players suffer this summer, and again this coming fall and winter.
In 2018, from the preseason through the regular season, concussion diagnoses dropped to 214 — down from 281 in 2017, 243 in 2016 and 275 in 2015.
The new safety initiatives for 2019, as with almost everything else NFL-related this year, have been largely buried in the public realm this off-season underneath all the angst, discussion, debate and worry over the first-time expansion of replay reviews to include pass interference calls and non-calls.
Yet these safety initiatives deserve further illumination.
On Friday afternoon the NFL’s executive VP of health and safety initiatives, Jeff Miller, spoke with Postmedia for half an hour, ostensibly to discuss the 99-year-old league’s newest health-and-safety collaboration, with NCAA football and its leading, so-called “Power Five” conferences.
To be sure, that’s another important step for the NFL, as it continues to expand its information-sharing relationships with brother sports leagues in North America and around the world, specifically regarding best practices for not just concussion detection, prevention and care but overall player safety and health.
That said, Miller and the NFL’s chief medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, this year together and independently have shared details of a few new, vital safety developments that might impact the game in 2019 as much or more than the occasional time a receiver gets interfered with before the ball arrives.
Following is an edited Q&A of my phone interview with Miller, grouped by subject matter:
PRESEASON CONCUSSION REDUCTION
Background: Although overall concussion diagnoses in 2018 dropped 24%, Miller and Sills were dismayed to learn that the number suffered in preseason practices (i.e., summer training camp) remained exactly the same, year-over-year: 45. As a result, NFL owners last month voted to ban three types of famous practice drills that typically feature particularly hard hitting and vicious collisions, including the so-called Oklahoma drill.
Q: Are there any further specifics you can share regarding what the NFL has discussed with teams, beyond banning the Oklahoma drill, etc., coming from your off-season collaborations with the competition committee?
Miller: “Your premise is right. We share the results of our investigations on preseason concussions with the competition committee, and generated the conversations that you alluded to. We committed to the clubs that we would spend time with each of the clubs, on an individual basis — with the medical staff, the training staff as well as the coaching staff if possible — to walk them through the (concussion) data for their specific club and how it compared to league averages for preseason, specifically. And we’ve been doing that over the past few weeks. The effort there is to raise awareness, hopefully, and work collaboratively with the clubs on ways that they can drive down some of the preseason concussion numbers.
“Because, as you know, we did not see a decrease year-over-year there, even though we were happy with the overall improvement in concussions league-wide and season-wide. The preseason is a focus of ours. It’s more personalized, I think, as we look at each club’s data and some of the insights that we’ve been able to glean from our research with them. That’s what we told the clubs at the owners meetings, and at the combine, and we’ve been following through on that.”
SAFER HELMETS
Background: The league again this year is ranking the myriad brands of helmets, from a safety perspective. Helmets designated ‘green’ are safest, based on extensive laboratory testing, followed by less-safe ‘yellow’ helmets, and least safe ‘red.’ This season the NFL is banning the 11 helmet models designated as red: five from Rawlings, one from Riddell, three from Schutt and two from SG. Last season 74% of NFL players wore greens, while fewer than three dozen of nearly 2,000 players wore reds. Fully half of the league’s players in 2018 switched to a safer brand.
Q: Are you expecting, or hoping for, even fewer concussions in 2019 based solely on the fact that more players will be in safer helmets, in part because red-category helmets are now banned?
Miller: “Yeah. It is one of the pillars of our 2019 concussion-reduction strategy — to move the 26% of the league’s players still wearing either yellow or red helmets into green. We know that 32 players who were in the red have to move into the better-performing helmets, but we’re also spending time and effort with the clubs to get those who were in yellow into green, because those are the helmets that test best in the laboratory, and there is a correlation with how those performed on the field.
“So if those helmets have greater protective capabilities, then we should see some benefit from it from a risk standpoint for the players. So that remains an essential element of our concussion-reduction strategy (moving players into better-performing helmets). I can’t put a lot of numbers against that. But if players are wearing better equipment that is performing better in laboratories, then we think those players have more protection against concussions.”
Q: At this point, what with most players presumably having picked their helmet for the 2019 season as OTAs and minicamps already have concluded, do you have a sense of how many players are switching this year to green helmet brands?
Miller: “I don’t have a comprehensive answer to that. But the anecdotal answer is that we feel good about the progress we’re making, and that the clubs are making, and that the players are making. There were nine new helmet models introduced by helmet manufacturers this year, which I think is the most new models we’ve had since we started our testing just a few years ago. And what’s important about that is not just the number, and not just that they all performed and tested in the green, which is important, but that many of those were meant to replace some of the older helmets, as well as those that didn’t perform as well in our laboratory testing.
“So for a player who was wearing a helmet that was testing in yellow, there is very likely a helmet that tested in green, and well into the green, that he can move into rather seamlessly — a newer version of his old model. So credit there to the manufacturing industry, to be able to offer that many different options … and making it easier for players to make that safer change. Anecdotally, we feel pretty good about the movement of those players who were wearing the yellow or red helmets last year.”
PUNT / BLIND-SIDE BLOCKS
Background: Starting this season, blind-side blocks to any part of a defender’s body are banned, on all plays. Previously, blind-side blocks pertained to the head or neck area only, and only in certain situations.
Q: Regarding your bio-engineering folks at the University of Virginia, have they in the last six months or so come up with any cool discoveries that could lead to possible rule changes?
Miller: “The big one this past year — and I don’t know how mature this conversation was when you and I spoke at the combine, but it hasn’t really been played up in the media as much as I would have expected — was around the blind-side block.
“The competition committee asked us to look at the punt play similar to how we looked at the kickoff the year before. And the result of the kickoff (i.e., drastic formational and positional changes) after one year — and it’s only one year, so it’s not a lot of data — but after one year, concussions were down on the kickoff play 38% against the previous three-year average. So that’s substantially safer. And by the way, we were down a similar percentage against major injuries on kickoffs — not just concussions but all significant injuries. That’s obviously a benefit and credit to the competition committee for the changes that they made.
“So they asked us to look at punt plays too, because the punt has now become the play with the highest rate of injuries. So we took a look at it, studying a lot of video and doing similar analysis to what we had done with the kickoff. And what we discovered was a major contributing factor to not only concussions but all major injuries (defined as missing eight days or more of practice or play) was blind-side blocks. That’s defined by us as players coming back to, or parallel with, the goal line when they made a block. Nevertheless, regardless of where those hits were, we were seeing a significant injury rate contributed to by blind-side blocks, and were probably if not the most, then among the most substantial contributors to concussions on the punt play. So we shared this information with the competition committee, and they came back and not only eliminated blind-side blocks, and broadened the (offending action) on the punt, but also prohibited the blind-side block on all other plays.
“This was an interesting and substantial step for them to take, as we were seeing a lot of these injuries not only on the punt but after turnovers, when players are sort of out of position to where they normally are, and the elimination of that blind-side block I think will have a significant contribution to lowering major-injury rates — specifically concussions.”
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CLEATS / TURF
Background: Similar to helmet grades, the NFL in the spring released information from the first stages of a study looking into which cleats are safest. The four top performing cleats based off intensive testing by the league’s engineers were all from Under Armour (Nitro Wide, Spine Wide, Nitro, Charged). Four Adidas models and five Nike models were in the next group of best performers, followed by five in the third group (UA Speedform, Nike Vapor, UA Highlight 2, Nike Menace and UA Spotlight 2). A poster listing all ranked models has gone up in locker rooms around the league.
Q: Pardon the pun, but what kind of traction are you getting on the cleat study?
Miller: “I acknowledge the joke … There is a lot of work yet to be done. This will be a foundational year for our work on cleats. Understanding injury rate per cleat, and trying to correlate that to laboratory testing around the cleat, will be a substantial step forward — if we’re able to accomplish it. So it’s finding out not just what cleats a player was wearing when he suffered a foot, ankle or knee injury, but also the frequency with which those cleats were being worn generally, so you could figure out an injury rate per cleat. It’s going to be an important step.
“We’ve put a lot of work and effort into this along with the clubs, around tracking that information, and doing a video review when necessary in order to validate that information, and then eventually figuring out how to do the data analytics to turn out the results for that. So that’s the goal. It’s a bit of an audacious goal for just one year, to just try to collect and process that kind of information. I’m optimistic we’re going to get there, but it’s going to be a challenge for the 2019 season. I think after that we’ll have a lot more insights into the cleats, and the (type of) turf too, and player performance and injuries in specific cleats. Hopefully that will allow us to move forward with a cleats/turf project.”
Q: Are there any cleat-bottom patterns — say, round knobs vs. slats — you’ve been able to glean for trends, re safety?
Miller: “You’re asking all the right questions, and I would add that a specific cleat may perform better on some artificial surfaces over others, or may perform better on real grass vs. turf, or perform better on turf than on grass, or may differ based on a player’s position, or what his actions are, such as straight line or cutting, or if he’s being hit when his foot is engaged with the turf. These are all the types of questions we’re going to have to answer. I’m not trying to duck yours, but the truth is all those sorts of questions, and many others, are going to become more acceptable once we figure out the injury-collection system in an accurate and meaningful way. I’m confident that if we’re successful in the first stages of this project that we’re going to be able to pursue answers to all the questions that you’ve raised, and all the others.”
NHL COLLABORATIONS
Q: Aside from world-forum type events, like the ones bringing together numerous pro sports leagues from around the world in London, England, I’m wondering if the NHL in particular has ever unilaterally reached out to the NFL to do any joint information sharing, such as what you have done with the CFL and now with the NCAA, or even just with concussion/CTE research?
Miller: “We have had a number of conversations with the NHL over the years, not only within the context of these international sports conferences, but independently as well. We don’t have any ongoing research collaborations with them as we do with the CFL or some other sports leagues. But that’s not for a lack of interest on both sides. I think that those conversations will continue, and if there’s an opportunity to find a specific research objective that we want to pursue together, then we’re more than open to it.”
Q: Does the NFL regard itself now as a leader, rather than a follower, as far as concussion prevention and research?
Miller: “Our goal is the same as when we started a lot of this work. And that is, at the direction of the commissioner and the owners, to do what we can to better understand injuries and better improve the safety of our sport, whether that’s through scientific research, engineering work or stimulating advances in protective equipment; through understanding injury rates and surveillance better than we have before; or through any other means — that’s the goal. To improve sports safety. I think we’re hopefully showing some advances in those stations, but there’s a long way to go. There’s no finish line when it comes to the health and safety of our sport. So we’ll continue to push forward and always try to find the next frontier, because our charge from the commissioner and from the league, and in partnership with the players, is to improve sport safety. That’s the way we think about it.”
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Woodbury Firefighters Successful in Protecting Values at Risk
Location of Origin: 5 miles NW of Superior, AZ
Jurisdiction: Tonto National Forest, AZ State Land
Start Date: June 8, 2019
Size: 34,351 acres
Percent Contained: 0%
Personnel: 721
Cause: Human-Caused, Under Investigation
Fire Information Line: 505-399-2439, 7am – 9pm
Website: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6382
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TontoNationalForest/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TontoForest
Notice: The Incident Management Team will have a Community Meeting on Sunday, June 16 at 2:00 pm at the Roosevelt Baptist Church, located on State Highway 188, Roosevelt, AZ 85545.
Today: Firefighters patrolled the south end of the fire to ensure that it remained north of the 509 road and within the wilderness boundary. Crews continued to reinforce the southwest edge of the fire with the help of helicopter water bucket drops on hot spots. There was minimal fire activity on the western side of the Woodbury Fire throughout today’s operational period. On the northwest side of the fire, crews were successful in keeping it from crossing over Highway 88. Burnout operations between Tortilla Flat and Tortilla Trailhead to keep the fire south of Highway 88 were successful. The terrain beyond the eastern edge of the fire, consists of very rocky outcrops and sparse vegetation. These conditions will help slow the fire’s progression.
There are currently no threats to the communities of Queen Valley Estates, Gold Canyon, Kings Ranch, Superior, and Apache Junction. Firefighting efforts on the north end of the fire will concentrate on protecting campgrounds, infrastructure, powerlines, and businesses along State Highway 88.
The Tonto National Forest has implemented fire restrictions. Please visit: https://firerestrictions.us/az/ for additional information.
The Southwest Area Type 1 Incident Management Team would like to remind the public “If You Fly We Can’t!” Flying drones or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) near a wildfire is ILLEGAL. In 2018 UAS incursions shut down aerial firefighting efforts at least 23 times.
Closures: State Highway 88 from Needle Vista east to the junction of State Highway 88 and State Highway 188. The closure includes: Tortilla Flat, Canyon Lake, Apache Lake, and campsites along State Highway 88 within the road closure area. The following areas remain open and accessible to the public: Lower Salt River, Saguaro Lake, Roosevelt Lake, and Bartlett Lake.
Containment: Despite continued work by firefighters, aircraft, and heavy equipment, due to rugged terrain and fire behavior, containment remains at zero percent. Containment is defined as: the status of a wildfire suppression action signifying that a control line has been completed around the fire, and any associated spot fires, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire's spread.
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Keywords: Tonto National Forest, Woodbury Fire, SR 88, SR 188, Roosevelt, Superstition Wilderness, Superior
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Four Reasons Jewish Federations Should Bolster their JCRCs
November 14, 2016 By eJP
JCRC of of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, Sonoma, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties; file photo.
By David Bernstein
During my first nine months as President of JCPA, I traveled to more than 30 Federations and JCRCs around the country. During these visits, I have seen renewed enthusiasm and support among many Federations for the community relations agenda. Community relations councils – or JCRCs – are the department or independent affiliate of a Federation that engage in public affairs and external relationship building on behalf of a local community. Some Federations that had previously cut back on their JCRCs are now reinvesting. They recognize that in today’s political environment, the Jewish community needs to reinforce its public profile, build new and stronger ties to other religious and ethnic communities, and promote involvement in social justice causes.
Here are four reasons why Federations should ratchet up their support for community relations:
1. Need to manage our place in a diversifying and polarizing society
If the recent stormy presidential elections tell us anything, it’s that our external environment has become increasingly volatile. America is becoming more and more diverse and interconnected. Such economic and social transitions can be profoundly destabilizing, providing fertile ground for the growth of the far right and the far left, while hollowing out the political middle. Both extremes of the spectrum are, as we’ve witnessed, hospitable to anti-Semitism. In this environment, the mainstream Jewish community must become even more adept at building strong ties to moderates on both the left and the right so as to immunize them against radical ideological currents. That is the work of JCRCs.
2. Need to combat de-legitimization of Israel
So much of the work being done to combat BDS is taking place in the proverbial emergency room, where BDS supporters have already built their coalitions and marshaled their forces. Israel’s supporters are forced to respond to crises that would have been avoidable had they laid the groundwork and built relationships with progressive groups. Indeed, the mainstream Jewish community has not spent nearly enough time building relationships to important segments of society, particularly those most susceptible to BDS.
Done strategically, community relations is the preventative medicine of BDS. When Jews get involved in larger communal work and build bridges to other ethnic and religious communities, they create allies. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” The role of JCRCs is to be and have friends.
3. Need to bring in younger Jews
The Jewish community faces unprecedented challenges in reaching and engaging young Jews. Millennials, in particular, do not follow traditional affiliation patterns. Experience and market research does, however, tell us that millennials are highly attracted to social justice. Many would be more drawn to a Jewish community similarly devoted to making the world a better place. JCRCs can provide this venue for young Jews. Moreover, JCRC activities themselves can enrich the Federation brand among young Jews, who will perceive the Federation as engaging in high value work worthy of their support.
4. Need to build up an irreplaceable asset
In numerous smaller and mid-sized communities, the local JCRC is the lone organized Jewish advocacy asset. They are often the only one building relationships, engaging in advocacy, and fighting de-legitimization of Israel. Some of these locales face all of the ideological challenges of, say, a San Francisco Bay area, but have a fraction of the resources and expertise to deal with them. These communities are particularly vulnerable to BDS campaigns. And what happens in a smaller community never stays in a smaller community. It is precisely in such places that we need a robust community relations presence, capable of fending off challenges from the extremes.
Even, however, in larger metropolitan areas where there are other Jewish advocacy organizations, there is no substitute for a strong, Federation backed JCRC. By virtue of their relationships with and representation of Federations, JCRCs derive a positioning and power that allows them to take on the big issues of the day. The closer the collaboration with the Federation, the stronger the voice.
With all of its prosperity and promises, the 1990s gave the Jewish world a false sense of security. The Twenty-first century reminds us of the need to advocate for ourselves, and, with it, the need to sustain strong JCRCs capable of doing the heavy lifting.
David Bernstein is President and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). Follow him on Twitter @DavidLBernstein.
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David Posner says
It may also well serve JCRCs and Federations to leverage the ample good will generated by the general community’s use of one particular Jewish institution, the Jewish Community Center, to advance messages of tolerance, pluralism and common values. Working with JCCs, JCRCs and and Federations may uncover important drivers of knowledge, behaviors and attitudes of non-Jewish JCC members and participants, and further, what they may be able to tell of the even wider general community. The benefits that JCCs enjoy by being open to the general community (without sacrificing in the least their ,mission of building Jewish community), benefits that are not purely monetary, may also extend to JCRCs and Federations.
Nancy L. Dudwick says
I totally agree with that sentiment.
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The Electron Pencil
"The blog has made Glab into a hip town crier, commenting on everything from local politics and cultural happenings to national and international events, all rendered in a colorful, intelligent, working-class vernacular that owes some of its style to Glab’s Chicago-hometown heroes Studs Terkel and Mike Royko." — David Brent Johnson in Bloom Magazine
Big Talk
Category Archives: Paul Shure
Barack Obama, Bernard Herrmann, Brian Jones, Farewell to the Master, Gort, Harry Bates, Klaatu, Lev Termen, Lock Martin, Michael Rennie, Mitt Romney, Nuclear Weapons, Patricia Neal, Paul Shure, Rolling Stones, Samuel Hoffman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Theremin
The Pencil Today:
THE QUOTE
“I am leaving soon. and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly.
“The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure.
“Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them.
“We of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all the planets and for the complete elimination of aggression.
“The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked.
“At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk.
“The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more profitable enterprises.
“Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works.
“I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.
“Your choice is simple: Join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration.
“We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.” — Klaatu in “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”
SCARE THE BASTARDS & VOTE!
Here’s where, today: The Curry Building, 214 W. Seventh St.; 8am-6pm
A HALLOWE’EN MESSAGE
Oh, baby, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” remains to this day one of my top ten fave movies of all time.
Michael Rennie was so cool and suave as Klaatu, the emissary from another planet. And Gort, the robot! Good heavens, he scared the bejesus out of me when the movie would air on TV on a Friday night. As a kid, I’d run out of the room when Gort would appear. That huge, faceless head! That massive body! The laser that shot out from his visor!
But I couldn’t bear to miss a single second of the movie so I’d tiptoe back into the living room and peek around the corner to see if Gort was still on the screen.
The thrills of childhood are so visceral and immediate.
It wasn’t until many years later that I realized Klaatu had a message for humanity. And later I read that the whole movie, adapted from a short story by Harry Bates entitled, “Farewell to the Master,” was a modern-day allegory for the arrival of a messiah.
Both Klaatu and Jesus brought a message of peace to humankind. Klaatu, while he roamed the streets of Washington, DC, took on the name Carpenter — Jesus was a carpenter. Klaatu was killed by the 1951 version of the Roman centurions and he was brought back to life so he could deliver his word.
Anyway, I was irked when the remake was announced a little more than five years ago. The original version, directed by Robert Wise, was still good enough for me. And then when I heard that the insufferable Keanu Reaves would play the lead, I vowed I’d never watch the remake. I’ve kept that vow.
And, you know, Gort was played by a real man named Lock Martin. In one scene, Gort carries the female lead, Helen Benson, played by Patricia Neal, into the spaceship. The problem was Martin, himself a breathtakingly tall individual, was oddly weak and so unable to carry Neal. The crew had to rig a system of wires to support Neal while Martin pretended to carry her.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” was scored by the brilliant Bernard Herrmann, who also handled music for “Citizen Kane,” “Psycho,” and “Taxi Driver.” Herrmann employed sophisticated (for his time) overdubbing and used odd and even bizarre instruments including two theremins, vibraphones, glockenspiels, and a celesta, among others.
The Theremin & Its Inventor, Lev Termen
The effect was an aural weirdness that was perfect for the film.
Oddly, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” was shut out of Oscar nominations for pictures made in 1951, not even gaining a technical nod. But there’s no shame in that: Red Buttons once won an Oscar but Cary Grant never did.
One more thing. Klaatu was shot in the opening sequence of the movie. He’s taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital for treatment where the doctors are stunned that he’s healed himself using a salve he’d brought from his home planet. While the doctors discuss Klaatu’s advanced pharmacology, they light up — right in the hospital! Such simpler times.
Now, which movie do you think I’m going to pop into my DVD player tonight?
THE SCARY THEREMIN
How cool is this?
I dug up some audio of the two paleo-technogeek musicians playing separate theremins in a recording session for the score for “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Their names were Dr. Samuel Hoffman (he was a foot doctor by day) and Paul Shure.
The theremin was played without actually touching the instrument. The player would wave his or her hands in front of a couple of antennae. With no frets, keys, or any other material devices to control pitch, volume, and duration, the theremin was extremely difficult to master.
The Rolling Stones’ musical adventurer, Brian Jones, played the theremin on “Their Satanic Majesties Request.”
Let’s listen to Hoffman and Shure lay down tracks during post-production for the movie.
The only events listings you need in Bloomington.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
VOTE ◗ The Curry Building, 214 W. Seventh St.; 8am-6pm
STUDIO TOUR ◗ Brown County, various locations — The Backroads of Brown County Studio Tour, free, self-guided tour of 16 local artists’ & craftspersons’ studios; 10am-5pm, through October
STORYTELLING ◗ Monroe County Public Library — Storyhour Extravaganza: Halloween; 10-10:45am
STORYTELLING ◗ Monroe County Public Library — Storyhour Extravaganza: Halloween; 1:30-2:15pm
LECTURE ◗ IU Memorial Union — “The Future of Urban Education in the US: Where Is It Going?”, Presented by Eugene White, superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, and David Harrs CEO of The Mind Trust; 2pm
MUSIC ◗ Cafe Django — Regal Rhythm Halloween Show, Plus costume contest; 7pm
MUSIC ◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Dobbs Project; 7-9pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Ford-Crawford Hall — Student Recital: Karen Stafford on historical clarinet; 7pm
PERFORMANCE ◗ Unity of Bloomington Church — Auditions & rehearsal for Bloomington Peace Choir; 7-8:30pm
MUSIC ◗ The Player’s Pub — Stardusters; 7:30-10:30pm
ASTRONOMY ◗ IU Kirkwood Observatory — Open house, Public viewing through the main telescope; 7:30pm
MUSIC ◗ Max’s Place — Open mic; 7:30pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Musical Arts Center — Concert Orchestra, Scott Sandmeier, director; 8pm
MUSIC ◗ The Bishop — The Wood Brothers, Lyra Lynn; 8pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Auer Hall — Doctoral Recital: Hanmo Qian on piano; 8pm
MUSIC ◗ The Bluebird — Rod Tuffcurls & the Benchpress; 9pm
ART ◗ IU Art Museum — Exhibits:
“New Acquisitions,” David Hockney; through October 21st
“Paragons of Filial Piety,” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi; through December 31st
“Intimate Models: Photographs of Husbands, Wives, and Lovers,” by Julia Margaret, Cameron, Edward Weston, & Harry Callahan; through December 31st
“French Printmaking in the Seventeenth Century;” through December 31st
Celebration of Cuban Art & Film: Pop-art by Joe Tilson; through December 31st
“Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China’s Minority Nationalities“; through December 23rd
“Workers of the World, Unite!” through December 31st
“Embracing Nature,” by Barry Gealt; through December 23rd
“Pioneers & Exiles: German Expressionism,” through December 23rd
ART ◗ Ivy Tech Waldron Center — Exhibits:
“Ab-Fab — Extreme Quilting,” by Sandy Hill; October 5th through October 27th
“Street View — Bloomington Scenes,” by Tom Rhea; October 5th through October 27th
“From the Heartwoods,” by James Alexander Thom; October 5th through October 27th
“The Spaces in Between,” by Ellen Starr Lyon; October 5th through October 27th
ART ◗ IU SoFA Grunwald Gallery — Exhibit:
Buzz Spector: Off the Shelf; through November 16th
Small Is Big; Through November 16th
ART ◗ IU Kinsey Institute Gallery — Exhibits:
“A Place Aside: Artists and Their Partners;” through December 20th
“Gender Expressions;” through December 20th
PHOTOGRAPHY ◗ IU Mathers Museum of World Cultures — Exhibit:
“CUBAmistad” photos
ART ◗ IU Mathers Museum of World Cultures — Exhibits:
“¡Cuba Si! Posters from the Revolution: 1960s and 1970s”
“From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything”
“Thoughts, Things, and Theories… What Is Culture?”
“Picturing Archaeology”
“Personal Accents: Accessories from Around the World”
“Blended Harmonies: Music and Religion in Nepal”
“The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer’s Journey through Mid-century America”
“TOYing with Ideas”
“Living Heritage: Performing Arts of Southeast Asia”
BOOKS ◗ IU Lilly Library — Exhibit:
“Outsiders and Others: Arkham House, Weird Fiction, and the Legacy of HP Lovecraft;” through November 1st
“A World of Puzzles,” selections from the Slocum Puzzle Collection
PHOTOGRAPHY ◗ Soup’s On — Exhibit:
Celebration of Cuban Art & Culture: “CUBAmistad photos; through October
PHOTOGRAPHY ◗ Monroe County History Center — Exhibit:
“Bloomington: Then and Now,” presented by Bloomington Fading; through October 27th
ARTIFACTS ◗ Monroe County History Center — Exhibits:
Doctors & Dentists: A Look into the Monroe County Medical Professions
What Is Your Quilting Story?
Garden Glamour: Floral Fashion Frenzy
Bloomington Then & Now
World War II Uniforms
Limestone Industry in Monroe County
The Ryder & The Electron Pencil. All Bloomington. All the time.
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JK Tourism FB page ranks second among popular pages in India
Home » Kashmir » JK Tourism FB page ranks second among popular pages in India
SRINAGAR, MAY 4: Owing to its aggressive tourism promotion campaign on social media, J&K Tourism Facebook page has been ranked second among all state tourism boards in India in 2017.
Facebook Inc. has done the ranking based on total interactions including reactions, shares and comments on Facebook page from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
J&K Tourism department launched its official page in January 2017 and despite being just one year old it has taken lead over the pages by tourism board of Gujarat which has legendry bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan as its brand ambassador. In a year, J&K tourism Facebook page crossed 2 lakh followers making it fastest growing pages in India.
Director Tourism Kashmir Mahmood A Shah received the award on Monday at the hands of Nitin Saluja, Facebook Public Policy Manager India, South & Central Asia, at Facebook New Delhi office.
Director Tourism Kashmir thanked the people of the State and the country for supporting J&K Tourism by making its Facebook page most interactive and engaging.
Since its launch, the department has been posting pictures, videos, and drone visuals, short films on daily basis to promote potential of J&K tourism.
The page has also been countering the negative perception among the intending visitors about Kashmir.
The department of tourism has hired the services of the local companies for its social media campaign and media publicity while as all other content posted on Facebook has been created and generated by local amateur filmmakers.
The department has also the distinction of being the first tourism board in the country which started feeding live drone visuals on its Facebook page making it the most active page and giving its followers real time experience of the Kashmir’s breathtaking landscapes.
In one of its biggest ever tourism promotional campaigns, the department released a five-minute short film ‘Warmest Place on Earth’ which was posted on Facebook page on 23 September 2017 garnering millions of accumulated views in just one day.
The movie has crossed over 20 million accumulated views so far projecting Kashmiri people as most hospitable and lovable.
Director Tourism Kashmir said India is one of the biggest Facebook users as 25% of its population is engaged with Facebook.
“We can’t ignore this medium and it has helped us a lot in promoting our known and lesser known destinations. We made drone videos of the lesser travelled places like Doodpathri, Aharbal which promoted these places. Our Facebook page engages around 40 million people in a month,” said Director Tourism.
The department has also been vigorously promoting state’s tourism potential on other handles like Twitter, Instagram and also Youtube.
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JEWISHST 37Q: Zionism and the Novel (COMPLIT 37Q)
At the end of the nineteenth century, Zionism emerged as a political movement to establish a national homeland for the Jews, eventually leading to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. This seminar uses novels to explore the changes in Zionism, the roots of the conflict in the Middle East, and the potentials for the future. We will take a close look at novels by Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, in order to understand multiple perspectives, and we will also consider works by authors from the North America and from Europe.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)
JEWISHST 37Q | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 15958 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | ISS | Students enrolled: 1 / 1
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 260-011 with Berman, R. (PI)
JEWISHST 71: Jews and Christians: Conflict and Coexistence (RELIGST 71)
The relationship between Judaism and Christianity has had a long a controversial history. Christianity originated as a dissident Jewish sect but eventually evolved into an independent religion, with only tenuous ties to its Jewish past and present. At the same time, Judaism has at times considered Christianity a form of idolatry. It seems that only since the catastrophe of the Holocaust, Jews and Christians (Catholics and Protestants) have begun the serious work of forging more meaningful relationships with each other. This course explores the most significant moments, both difficult and conciliatory ones, that have shaped the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, and introduces students to some of the most important literature, art, and music that are part of it. nSelected literature: Gospel according Matthew, the letters of St. Paul, St. Augustine, the Talmud (selections), Maimonides, Martin Luther's sermons on the Jews, Nostra Aetate (Vatican II)nArt and Music: Medieval art and sculpture, Haendel's Messiah.
Instructors: Gross, S. (PI)
JEWISHST 71 | 3 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 43583 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC | Students enrolled: 4
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at School of Education 206 with Gross, S. (PI)
JEWISHST 80T: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam (MUSIC 80T)
An Interdisciplinary study of Music, Society, and Culture in communities of the Jewish Diaspora in Islamic countries. The course examines the diverse and rich musical traditions of the Jews in North Africa and the Middle East. Based on the "Maqamat" system, the Arabic musical modes, Jewish music flourished under Islamic rule, encompassing the fields of sacred music, popular songs, and art music. Using musicological, historical, and anthropological tools, the course compares and contrasts these traditions from their original roots through their adaptation, appropriation, and re-synthesis in contemporary art music and popular songs.
How literary works outside the realm of Western culture struggle with questions such as identity, minority, and the issue of the Other. How the Arab is viewed in Hebrew literature, film and music and how the Jew is viewed in Palestinian works in Hebrew or Arabic (in translation to English). Historical, political, and sociological forces that have contributed to the shaping of these writers' views.nnGuest lectures about the Jew in Palestinian literature and music.
Instructors: Shemtov, V. (PI) ; Elbaz, E. (TA)
JEWISHST 106 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 32013 (CANCELLED) | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM
JEWISHST 106 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 42935 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 2
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 30-101 with Shemtov, V. (PI); Elbaz, E. (TA)
Exam Date/Time: 2016-03-15 7:00pm - 10:00pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Shemtov, V. (PI); Elbaz, E. (TA)
JEWISHST 129: Modern Jewish Thought (RELIGST 129)
From 1870 to the late twentieth century, Jewish thought and philosophy attempted to understand Judaism in response to the developments and crises of Jewish life in the modern world. In this course we shall explore the responses of figures such as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Joseph Soloveitchik, Emil Fackenheim, and Emmanuel Levinas. Central topics will concern ethics and politics, faith and revelation, redemption and messianism, and the religious responses to catastrophe and atrocity. We shall discuss Judaism in European culture before and after World War I and in North America in the postwar period and after the Six Day War. A central theme will be the ways in which attempts to understand Jewish experience are related to history.
JEWISHST 143: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, FRENCH 133)
JEWISHST 143 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 47012 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM
JEWISHST 144B: Poetic Thinking Across Media (COMPLIT 154B, COMPLIT 354B, GERMAN 154, GERMAN 354)
Even before Novalis claimed that the world must be romanticized, thinkers, writers, and artists wanted to perceive the human and natural world poetically. The pre- and post-romantic poetic modes of thinking they created are the subject of this course. Readings include Ecclestias, Zhaozhou Congshen, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Kafka, Benjamin, Arendt, and Sontag. This course will also present poetic thinking in the visual arts--from the expressionism of Ingmar Bergman to the neo-romanticism of Gerhard Richter.
Instructors: Alford, L. (PI) ; Eshel, A. (PI)
JEWISHST 144B | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 45424 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Wed 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM at 260-007 with Alford, L. (PI); Eshel, A. (PI)
Instructors: Alford, L. (PI); Eshel, A. (PI)
JEWISHST 147: German Capstone: Reading Franz Kafka (COMPLIT 111, COMPLIT 311C, GERMAN 190, GERMAN 390, JEWISHST 349)
This class will address major works by Franz Kafka and consider Kafka as a modernist writer whose work reflects on modernity. We will also examine the role of Kafka's themes and poetics in the work of contemporary writers. (Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement)
JEWISHST 155D: Jewish American Literature (ENGLISH 145D, REES 145D)
A study of Jewish-American literature from its Russian roots into the present. What distinguishes it from American mainstream and minority literatures? We will consider the difficulties of displacement for the emigrant generation who struggled to sustain their cultural integrity in the multicultural American environment, and the often comic revolt of their American-born children and grandchildren against their grand)parents¿ nostalgia, trauma, and failure to assimilate. Authors: Gogol, Dostoevsky, Babel, Olsen, Paley, Yezierska, Ozick, Singer, Malamud, Spiegelman, Roth, Bellow, Segal, Baldwin.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
JEWISHST 155D | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 45838 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | SEM | Students enrolled: 1
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at Encina West 108 with Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
JEWISHST 243: Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature from the Bible to the Present (COMPLIT 283)
This course presents and reflects on some of the canonical works of Hebrew literature, from biblical era to the present. Discussing works such as the Wisdom Books and selections from the Midrash; and reflecting on important periods such as the Golden Age of Jewish Culture in Spain, the Renaissance, and contemporary Israeli literature, we will highlight linguistic innovation, as well as crucial thematic and philosophical concerns. Readings include the Book of Job, Psalm, Ibn Gabirol, Mapu, Rachel, Goldbegr, Agnon, S. Yizhar, Amichai, Oz and more.
Instructors: Shemtov, V. (PI)
JEWISHST 243 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 47043 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 1
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 260-011 with Shemtov, V. (PI)
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Zack Wheeler is Probably What He Should’ve Been
by Alex Chamberlain
Zack Wheeler, prior to about two weeks ago, was an enigmatic starting pitcher on whom many fantasy owners had started to lose faith. (Such faith might again be lost after Sunday’s start, which is another issue all together.) After missing two seasons recovering from Tommy John surgery and related setbacks, Wheeler returned to the mound in 2017 only to be sidelined once more and miss almost the entire second half of that season. The prospects of him succeeding in 2018 were, frankly, not great.
Wheeler, however, came out firing, his four-seamer and two-seamer averaging 95.9 and 96.1 mph, respectively, up from 94.8 and 94.3 mph — a moral victory in its own right. The added velocity helped both pitches play up in way completely unseen the year prior, as measured by expected weighted on-base average (xwOBA) allowed:
FF/FT xwOBA
Four-Seamer .345 .307
Two-Seamer .389 .232
SOURCE: Statcast
Underpinning the xwOBA gains were wholesale changes to each offering’s batted ball profile: the four-seamer became a pop-up machine, the two-seamer a ground ball machine, both ranking roughly in the upper third of their pitch types by each metric. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, Wheeler displaced his change-up with a splitter, my favorite pitch. While the splitter itself was not particularly good relative to other splitters last year — or even relative to his other pitches, inducing the worst xwOBA of any of them in 2018 — it would prove to be a fortuitous addition to his arsenal.
It’s 2019 now, and Wheeler has ceded much of the gains on his two-seamer from last year, going from his best pitch to his worst, as measured by xwOBA. The flip-flop in effectiveness has been exacerbated by a fundamental change in Wheeler’s approach that has favored his two-seamer, thus far his worst pitch this year, almost as if he tried to optimize his approach based on last year’s numbers. Incidentally, it’s the splitter, his worst pitch last year, that has both been his most reliable offering this year and kept him afloat…
Wheeler xwOBA
Four-Seamer .345 .307 .305
Two-Seamer .389 .232 .324
Slider .284 .247 .305
Splitter n/a .319 .268
… which, to me, is a sensible turn of events. Splitters are arguably baseball’s best pitch type league-wide; four-seamers and two-seamers, the worst. Compared to the league-wide xwOBA on each pitch, Wheeler’s splitter is slightly worse than average; his four- and two-seamers, actually better than average; his slider, exceptionally bad. Sadly, a “better-than-average” fastball doesn’t mean all that much. The average breaking ball usually is significantly better than the above-average fastball. Ultimately, the gains have only partially offset the losses, resulting in an added 20 points to his overall xwOBA allowed (.276 in 2018, .296 in 2019). With each pitch being resoundingly average, Wheeler himself has been resoundingly average.
In 2018, Wheeler benefited from above-average outcomes by measure of batting average on balls in play (BABIP) and home run-to-fly ball rate (HR/FB). Even though his excellent 2018 outcomes were validated by xwOBA, they violated the basic sabermetric laws by which we abode before the advent of the Statcast EraTM. A HR/FB rate in the single digits, let alone one roughly two-thirds that of the league average (8.1%, versus the league’s 12.7%), screams reversion to the mean.
In an attempt to mentally simplify things (the use of Statcast often achieves the opposite), it seems more reasonable to me to expect Wheeler to continue to pitch more closely to his 2019 outcomes than his 2018 outcomes by virtue of traditionally sabermetric thinking. Besides, “deserved” outcomes in one season do not necessarily guarantee the same “deserved” outcomes in the next. This is why I maintain we, constituents of the fantasy baseball community, still have a lot to learn with regard to how Statcast should be wielded as an analytical tool. That’s a discussion for another day.
Wheeler, being resoundingly average and all — that’s fine. In the current run-scoring context, you could do much worse than Wheeler in his 2019 form. His wOBA-minus-xwOBA differential (wOBA–xwOBA) of –.003 suggests Wheeler has effectively pitched to his skill level, much as he did last year (–.005). The only difference — again, aside from giving back perhaps undeserved HR/FB and BABIP gains — is what appears to be a bad-luck strand rate (LOB%). With an ERA at least 67 points higher than any of his ERA estimators (3.65 FIP, 3.81 xFIP, 3.98 SIERA), it stands to reason Wheeler’s strand rate is almost exclusively the culprit for his lackluster season.
Keep in mind, despite Wheeler’s shellackings this season, his xwOBA, which accounts for both contact quality permitted (which, by design, accounts for him grooving pitches or any other ill causes to allow ill effects) as well as strikeouts and walks tallied, validates his wOBA-allowed this season. His .313 BABIP is a slight eyesore, but the 13.8% HR/FB bests the league average of 15.1%. Generally, the ERA estimators assume league-average rates of BABIP and HR/FB. A little bit of give-and-take to each suggests the deviations from the mean cancel out each other. In other words, Wheeler should be pitching commensurate to those sub-4.00 ERA estimators. In other other words, what other culprit could there be beyond a bad-luck strand rate?
Sometimes, the answer is as simple as that. There’s an argument to be made that Wheeler performs worse with men on base and in scoring position — and, indeed, that is true — yet he has performed to expectations in those situations. I might’ve expected his wOBA–xwOBA to be significantly worse with runners on base, but there’s really no evidence in favor of it. It points even more strongly toward unfavorable event sequencing, brought on more by bad luck than anything self-inflicted in unfavorable base-out situations.
If I were to diagnose Wheeler’s lack of effectiveness this year, beyond any issues borne of luck or the juiced ball, it seems Wheeler is getting less extension on all his pitches…
… despite, or perhaps because, he is generating more spin on all his pitches.
I imagine the improvements to Wheeler’s splitter can be largely, if not fully, attributable to the offering’s augmented spin rate — the only one that increased in rpms relative to 2018 and a silver lining in what appears to be the trade-off with less extension. Given the changes to his extension and spin rates, it seems unlikely his pitches will begin to resemble their superior forms of yesteryear, lest Wheeler makes a mechanical adjustment. Then again, the outside chance he does make an adjustment makes a buy-low more enticing, even if only slightly so.
Ultimately, I think Wheeler’s 4.69 ERA will converge on his ERA estimators, all of which sit under 4.00 and paint a much prettier portrait of the beleaguered starter. It’s always possible it doesn’t — no matter how large and stable a sample 200 innings seems, nearly anything can happen in that time — but, were I betting man, I’d put my money where my mouth is. Your window to buy low on Wheeler is slowly closing, although yesterday’s start should keep it open a little longer. Despite yesterday’s outcome, he remains an especially solid bet to cash in on some good luck and be a top-40 pitcher rest-of-season.
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HOLX or EW: Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now?
Here at Zacks, our focus is on the proven Zacks Rank system, which emphasizes earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find great stocks. Nevertheless, we are always paying attention to the latest value, growth, and momentum trends to underscore strong picks.
Investors interested in Medical - Instruments stocks are likely familiar with Hologic (HOLX) and Edwards Lifesciences (EW). But which of these two companies is the best option for those looking for undervalued stocks? Let's take a closer look.
We have found that the best way to discover great value opportunities is to pair a strong Zacks Rank with a great grade in the Value category of our Style Scores system. The proven Zacks Rank puts an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions, while our Style Scores work to identify stocks with specific traits.
Hologic and Edwards Lifesciences are both sporting a Zacks Rank of # 2 (Buy) right now. The Zacks Rank favors stocks that have recently seen positive revisions to their earnings estimates, so investors should rest assured that both of these companies have improving earnings outlooks. But this is only part of the picture for value investors.
Value investors analyze a variety of traditional, tried-and-true metrics to help find companies that they believe are undervalued at their current share price levels.
The Value category of the Style Scores system identifies undervalued companies by looking at a number of key metrics. These include the long-favored P/E ratio, P/S ratio, earnings yield, cash flow per share, and a variety of other fundamentals that help us determine a company's fair value.
HOLX currently has a forward P/E ratio of 19.90, while EW has a forward P/E of 34.96. We also note that HOLX has a PEG ratio of 2.22. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. EW currently has a PEG ratio of 2.36.
Another notable valuation metric for HOLX is its P/B ratio of 5.98. Investors use the P/B ratio to look at a stock's market value versus its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. By comparison, EW has a P/B of 11.18.
Based on these metrics and many more, HOLX holds a Value grade of B, while EW has a Value grade of D.
Both HOLX and EW are impressive stocks with solid earnings outlooks, but based on these valuation figures, we feel that HOLX is the superior value option right now.
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We live in a startling new world. In 2011, the Thirsty Turtle Times began as a proud platform for fake news. Our understanding of this term at the time was news that wasn’t real but told the truth anyway.
But there has been an awakening, on the Dark Side of the force.
That alignment of words and meaning has been washed away by the rising tide of a very malicious kind of fake news. There emerged a movement of lies, lies that masked themselves as truth, designed to galvanize the hateful predispositions within us, into accepting false conclusions. Fake news of late has become, in short, a force of evil.
Where does the Flat Earth Times fit into this? We’re getting to it.
Still bound by the calling and the drive that built it, the Thirsty Turtle Times carried on, a force for positive reinforcement and encouragement to the coalition for reason – a fighting force against crazy people. That battle can no longer be fought only at the university level, or only in one town.
But we will do it right. We want you to know, when you read our news, that we also think the Earth may be flat.
You want the truth you feel, not the truth you know. The world is flat, and our news is real.
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Chapter 9: Adding Sound with XACT
This chapter takes a closer look at XACT. XACT is the name for Microsoft’s Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool, which allows you to create audio projects for the Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. It is actually the only way to play sounds in XNA. That doesn’t matter so much for the Windows platform because you can plug in any other sound engine you want (DirectSound of DirectX, OpenAL, FMod, and so on) and play sound or music this way. It is not that easy on the Xbox 360 because you can only use the XNA Framework here and it is absolutely not possible to use any other framework for playing sound. The reason you can’t use anything but XACT is the fact that you cannot use any unmanaged code in XNA, and to play sound or use any low-level hardware on the Xbox 360 you would need unmanaged code to access it. For the same reason you cannot use any other graphics or input engine than the one XNA provides for you.
But XACT isn’t all bad; the reason why it was implemented into XNA is to make sure it is possible to use the same sound content and sound playback code for both the Windows and the Xbox 360 platforms. For example, the Xbox 360 supports only XMA compression; the PC uses other compression formats for sound and music like MP3, OGG, ADPCM, and many other custom compression formats, but only ADPCM is supported in XACT. Voice over IP applications often use their own proprietary sound compression format because the human voice can be compressed better than music, for example. Sound effects are very short and small anyway, but you as a game developer usually want the highest possible quality for sound effects and therefore sound effects are often uncompressed or use lossless compressions. Music, on the other hand, takes up a lot of space. If your game is on a DVD or you have plenty of hard disk space you can waste, you could just store the music as uncompressed wav files or directly on the CD or DVD. For XNA games this is not an option because you can’t access the DVD on the Xbox 360, and wasting a few hundred MB for just the music is not a good idea for your game.
In the past with DirectX or Managed DirectX applications you would most likely use DirectSound for the sound playback or use other frameworks like OpenAL or commercial sound engines like FMod. Even with these frameworks you will still have to do a lot of custom code; you have to decide which sound format is the best for you and you will have to worry about sound compression yourself. Additionally, you must implement a way to play music yourself too. For example, DirectSound is really not usable for music - it just supports .wav files - but if you want to play MP3 or OGG music files, you have to use other frameworks like DirectShow, Windows MCI, ActiveX sound playback codecs or other free and commercial frameworks and sound engines. Yes, you are right, this sounds like a lot of work. The actual code to play back sounds or music is very simple for most games. It gets a little bit more complicated if you want to use complex 3D sound calculations and if you want to support surround sound, but it is still way easier to program these things than to develop your 3D engine.
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David Icke's Official Forums > Main Forums > Today's News > Politics / Elections
Brexit and a 2-state solution
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It's December 2018 and I'm wondering why Brexit (and politics in general) has to force the British people to all behave in the same way, despite dividing the nation in half. In business, we get to choose from a range of products/services, but in politics we are currently stuck with an archaic political system based on the crude 'first-past-the-post' voting system in which 'the winner takes it all'.
A possible solution to the Brexit problem is to divide the country in two, but not necessarily into two separate countries, rather divide the country administratively. Computers would be needed to manage the added complexity of people and companies following different rules. I'm aware that computers and Artificial Intelligence are part of the Ruling Elite's plans.
If Brexit takes place in 2019, then it would likely contribute to the fragmentation of Britain that has already begun with Wales and Scotland implementing their own governments. England will be next, and already there are numerous regional bodies in place to manage the process. London's Mayor SADIQ KHAN was one of many pro-Europe Londoners who wanted London to be more autonomous so that it could remain in Europe.
All this fragmentation is part of the Ruling Elite's planned death of the nation state, which will see smaller regions subordinate to transnational institutions, and ultimately a global authority/world government.
This article is also in the political section of my website https://thegreatworkdecoded.com
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Rather than spend billions doing up the palace of Westminster and continuing with the confrontational seating arrangement that has served the country so badly in recent decades it would be much cheaper to purpose build a larger modern parliament building with semi circular seating as per Welsh and Scottish assemblies.
That would be a start.
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Go one step further if we stay in the EU and get rid of the Houses of Commons and House of Lords. Not needed at all.
Think of all the money that will be saved.
If we decide to leave we should move them to somewhere central, say Birmingham, instead of them being in London.
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Tania Mallet, Bond girl in ‘Goldfinger,’ dies aged 77
Posted 9:17 am, April 1, 2019, by Rebecca Green
By Bard Wilkinson, CNN
“Goldfinger” actress Tania Mallet has died aged 77, prompting messages of condolence from James Bond fans.
A cousin of British actress Dame Helen Mirren, Mallet played Tilly Masterson alongside Sean Connery’s Bond in the 1964 classic. Her death was announced on the official 007 Twitter account.
“We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in GOLDFINGER has passed away,” the tweet said. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”
Born in Blackpool to father Henry and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, according to a biography on IMDb, Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She went on to become one of the most famous faces of the 1950s and 60s.
However, instead of pursuing a career in acting after her blockbuster film, she returned to modeling.
In “Goldfinger” she played a character intent on killing Auric Goldfinger after he murdered her sister by painting her body in gold paint.
Tilly was killed off during the movie when villain Oddjob threw his steel-rimmed hat at her.
Fan site Bondstars.com posted a tribute on Twitter, writing: “Unfortunately we must share the very sad news that our dear friend Tania Mallet has sadly passed away.
“She was a very classy and beautiful lady inside and out.”
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RCF at PL+S 2019: HDL 26-A and HDL 50-A 4K listening sessions
RCF has really spoiled us for the 2019 edition of PL + S with two systems ready for outdoor listening under the cloudy Frankfurt sky, the small HDL 26-A and the brand new HDL 50-A 4K, completed by the same set of 9 subs 9006- AS in End Fire assembly.
Here are our listening impressions.
First of all, let’s put this into perspective, as we do every year. These listening sessions take place in a rather limited space, even reduced compared to past years. The listener is positioned at a distance that any system, even not line-array type, can easily cover. The max level being 95 dB(A), small systems are clearly advantaged since each brand heavily relies, to say the least, on their subwoofers level.
The audio sources are a choice of studio recordings or even off-the-shelf CDs whose mixing and mastering, or even remastering allow, year after year, a race towards the Holy Grail of SPL, conscientiously gorging the Leq authorized with an unreasonable pre-emphasis of extreme lows and highs. To summarise, and this was admitted by many technicians present at these demos, you should take them just as a preview of what the product can do.
This year, RCF again shared its mobile podium Italian way with its cousins of dB Technologies, but also the new US cousins EAW, and hung two references from its range of HDL composite speakers, the 26-A and 50-A.
Some products of the big family in the RCF Group. Missing only a DPA microphone! From left to right are the HDL 26-A, the 50-A 4K, the dB Technologies VIO L212 and finally the Anya system from EAW.
The collaboration with Leo Moracchioli, a famous YouTube musician, has been continued, so we’ve had a chance to see and hear Toto’s Africa and Ray Parker Jr.’s GhostBusters as musical extracts for the demos with subwoofers (and therefore high level), with, skilfully enough, in-between spoken intermissions explaining the strong points of the products, which helped lowering the LEQ during a few minutes, clever boys ;0)
HDL 26-A
The 26-A, surprisingly small with their 6″ transducers, while besides enthroned three models comprising 12″ or even 15″ components, are first put into in full range test with a musical program that contains hardly anything below 80 Hz, and get away with the honors during this brief test run.
The sonic rendering is very fluid, precise and without any roughness or color. The polar pattern appears to be wide and regular. The 90° diffusion angle is a reality, with a rapid but homogeneous decline when moving further away.
The voice is reproduced with a nice grain and what is needed of low medium and even bass frequencies when used on their own. They can be quite enough for an event, a speech, a comedian show or a theatre play.
Bi-amplified, with 2000 W and weighing only 13.5 kg, the HDL 26-A offers power and full tonal respect.
The 3″ engine steps in from 750 Hz and does a lot of work indeed. The stacking of 9006-AS subwoofers, a quite unique stack making it easy to obtain a very low interference lobe and set to seduce the large German audience present that day, inflates the 26-A.
Even if the real lows default, the illusion is almost perfect and the SPL flies away.
Revised and “metallized” Africa stems were at RCF disposal, allowing to simulate a line check, before the real thing was put to full volume for a final run tickling the threshold multiband limiter set to “hard”, preventing the breakage of transducers, but the “soft” compressor was already braking 6 dB before.
It pumps and slightly distorts a little, but the whole performance does stick to the road, especially considering we have outdoor conditions, with 8 very affordable small boxes per side. We can only take our hat off to RCF for this demo and still remember that it is not common that one couples such small mid-hi enclosures with such subs who have just warmed up a bit…
The Italian wind generator. New 9006-AS in End Fire configuration, used here with the two flown RCF speakers models.
HDL 50-A 4K
With the HDL 50-A, now named 4K to indicate amplification under steroids, we clearly pass a stage. 8 elements per side, there is plenty to do. Lucio Boiardi-Serri, the Audio Specialist Audio Pro confirms this speaker now has the big power engine that was missing. Customers having bought the first version will even be allowed to swap their amp module to enjoy the new rendering. RCF is studying an affordable solution for this exchange.
On the other hand, it is impossible to mix the two models, although looking the same from the outside, in terms of transducers and enclosure, as the cutoff frequencies have changed slightly as well as the settings of the limiters. This new Pascal Audio original module provides 2000 W RMS for the two 12″, 1000 W for the four 6.5″ and 1000 W for both 3″ drivers (2″ throat). This doubling of the power inevitably adds 3 dB to the Max SPL, thus reaching 143 dB.
Lucio Boiardi-Serri (RCF) besides the 4K version of the HDL 50-A.
The first impression when listening in full range is that it “breathes” with no effort whatsoever. The sound is full, very deep and the bass is really present with a significant dynamic capacity and a gutsy rendering.
The grain of the voice is precise, the highs are heavily there but this is probably due to both the audio (and video) file of the demo, and, once again, very “German” calibration.
The polar dispersion is wide and the 90° are reached, with a medium distance attenuation more important compared to the rest of the spectrum, as one moves away from the center. No hardness nor color are noticeable, which makes this product stand perfectly in its position in the RCF range to deliver delicate musical extracts such as classical music.
As every year, listening to RCF products is a must, even when the weather and the Dante network are capricious;
The addition of the subwoofers comes along the use of the arrangements of our good ol’ YouTube pal Leo Moracchioli , but unfortunately during “GhostBusters”, the title chosen by RCF, he has definitely overworked it, and we’re stuck with pumping, clipping and distortion; it therefore becomes impossible to even form an opinion on this system.
It is obvious that the HDL 50-A 4K is powerful and able to compete with other big industry players, but we will have to wait for a real concert with “real sound” to pronounce us.
The RCF HDL 50-A 4K.
Let’s hope finally that RCF renews its demos in the future and passes on to other musical extracts, if possible from real concerts or blameless audio sources to challenge at best the attack, the dynamics and the respect of the audio spectrum of its very beautiful louspeakers.
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Text & photos: Ludo Monchat. Translation: Bruno P. Souchaud.
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Epitome of Roman History/Book 2
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CHAP. XIII. THE SEDITIOUS NATURE OF THE TRIBUNITIAL POWER.
The Tribunitial Power furnished occasions for all kinds of seditions; a power which, under pretence of maintaining the rights of the common people, (for whose protection it was established,) but in reality to acquire power for itself, courted the favour of the populace by proposing laws respecting the division of lands, the distribution of corn, and the disposal of judicial proceedings. In all these laws there was indeed a colour of equity. For what was more just, than that the commons should have their full rights from the senate, that a people who had conquered all other nations, and was master of the world, might not live without altars and hearths of their own? What was more equitable, than that the poorest class of people should be maintained from the public treasury of their country? What was more conducive to the security of equal liberty, than that, while the senate settled the provinces, the authority of the equestrian order should be supported by judicial privileges?[1] Yet these very objects led to harm, and the unhappy state became a prize for its own overthrow. For the transference of the judicial power from the senate to the knights, caused peculation with regard to taxes,[2] the patrimony of the of the government; while the purchase of corn exhausted the treasury, the nerves of the commonwealth. And how could the common people be put in possession of lands, but by the ejection of those that already occupied them, who were themselves a part of the people, and who moreover held their estates, as bequeathed to them from their forefathers, by prescription of time and right of inheritance?
CHAP. XIV. THE SEDITION OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS.
Tiberius Gracchus kindled the first flame of contention, a man who was unquestionably the first in Rome for family, person, and eloquence. But he, whether dreading to be involved in the odium of Mancinus's surrender,[3] (as he had been one of the sureties for the performance of that treaty,) and joining in consequence the popular party, or moved by a regard to equity and justice, and taking pity on the commons, in order that a people who had conquered[4] all other nations, and was master of the world, might continue exiles from their own altars and hearths, or from whatever motive he acted, entered upon a great political measure, and, when the day for propounding the bill for it was come, ascended the Rostra attended with a vast train of followers; nor did the nobility, on the other side, fail to meet him with a body of opponents, among whom were the rest of the tribunes. But when Gracchus observed Cnaeus Octavius opposing his laws, he laid hands upon him, in violation of the rights of the tribunitial body and the privileges of their office, and thrust him from the Rostra; and, besides, put him so much in fear of instant death, that he was obliged to lay down his office. Gracchus was in consequence made one of three commissioners for the division of the lands. But when, to complete his objects, he requested, at the comitia, that his term of office might be prolonged, and a party of the nobility, and of those whom he had expelled from their lands, rose up against him, a sanguinary conflict ensued in the forum. Having, upon this, fled to the Capitol, and exhorting the people to save his life, touching his head, at the same time, with his hand, he excited the idea that he was asking for royalty and a diadem. The people, therefore, at the instigation of Scipio Nasica, being roused to take up arms, he was, with apparent justice, put to death.
CHAP. XV. THE SEDITION OF CAIUS GRACCHUS.
Shortly after, Caius Gracchus was animated with equal ardour to become the avenger of his brother's death and the maintainer of his laws. Endeavouring, accordingly, with similar tumult and terror, to reinstate the people in their forefathers' lands, promising them the late bequest of Attalus for their support, and becoming elated and influential by means of a second tribuneship, he pursued for a time, with the support of the common people, and apparently successful course; but when Minucius, another of the tribunes, ventured to oppose his laws, he had the boldness, relying on the aid of partisans, to take possession of the Capitol so fatal to his family. Being driven thence, with a great slaughter among his party, he sought refuge on Mount Aventine, where, a number of the senators assailing him, he was cut off by the consul Opimius. Insult was also offered to his dead body; and the sacred head of a tribune of the people was paid for to his assassins with its weight in gold.
CHAP. XVI. THE SEDITION OF APULEIUS.
Apuleius Saturninus, however, still persisted to promote the laws of the Gracchi, so much was he encouraged by Marius, who, being always an enemy to the nobility, and presuming, moreover, on his consulship, endeavoured, after killing openly, at the comitia, Annius his competitor[5] for the tribunate, to introduce in his stead one Caius Gracchus, a man without tribe or name, but who, by a forged pedigree, had represented himself as one of the family of the Gracchi.
Apuleius, exulting with impunity amidst so many and so great outrages, applied himself, with such determination, to pass the laws of the Gracchi, that he even prevailed upon the senate to take an oath to promote his object, threatening such as hesitated that he would procure their exile.</ref>That he would procure their exile] Aqua et igni interdicturem. "That he would interdict from fire and water," the common form of words used in the sentence of banishment.</ref> Yet there was one who chose exile rather than to take the oath. After the banishment of Metellus, therefore, when the nobility were greatly dispirited, and when he was domineering in his third year, he proceeded to such a height of audacity, that he even disturbed the consular comitia with a new murder. In order to make Glaucias, an abettor of his insanity, consul, he ordered his rival Caius Memmius to be slain, and, in the midst of the consequent tumult, joyfully heard himself called king by his followers. But the senate afterwards combining against him, and Marius, as he was no longer able to support him, becoming his opponent, a pitched battle was fought in the forum, and, being driven from the field, he took refuge in the Capitol. Being, however, besieged, and deprived of water, and producing in the minds of the senators, by the representations of his deputies, a belief that he repented of what he had done, he was allowed to come down from the Capitol, and was received, with the leaders of his party, into the senate-house, when the people, bursting into the building, overwhelmed him with sticks and stones, and tore him to pieces before he was dead.
CHAP. XVII. THE SEDITION OF DRUSUS.
Last of all, Livius Drusus, depending not only on the influence of the tribuneship, but on the authority of the senate, and the consent of all Italy, endeavoured to promote the same laws, and, by attempting one thing after another, excited so violent a combustion in the state, that not even the first flash of it could be endured; and, being cut off by a sudden death, he left a war as an inheritance to his posterity. The Gracchi, by their law respecting the judicial power, had divided the Roman people into two parties, and made of one nation a state with two heads. The Roman knights, feeling strong in such extraordinary privileges,[6] as having the lives and fortunes of the greatest men in their hands, were, by intercepting the public revenues,[7] robbing the state at their pleasure; while the senate, weakened by the banishment of Metellus[8] and the condemnation of Rutilius,[9] had lost all the pride of their dignity. In this state of affairs, Servilius Caepio and Livius Drusus, men equal in wealth, spirit, and dignity, (whence the rivalship that animated Drusus arose,) proceeded to maintain, the former the cause of the equestrian order, and the latter that of the senate. Standards, eagles, and banners accompanied each, and there was as much hostility in one city as there could have been in two camps. Caepio, in the first place, making an attack upon the senate, singled out Scaurus and Philippus, leaders among the nobility, to prosecute them for bribery at elections. Drusus, to oppose these proceedings, attracted the populace to his side by the prospect of passing the laws of the Gracchi, and inspired the allies, by means of the same laws, with the hope of obtaining the civic franchise. There is a saying of his remembered, "that he left nothing for any one to give away, unless he would distribute dust or air." The day for proposing the bills arrived, when suddenly so vast a multitude showed themselves on all sides, that the city seemed to be beset with a crowd of enemies. Yet the consul Philippus ventured to oppose the bills; but an officer, seizing him by the throat, did not let him go till the blood gushed from his mouth and eyes. The bills were accordingly proposed and passed by force. But the allies, immediately afterwards, demanded the civic franchise which had been offered as the price of their assisting to pass them, when death, meantime, carried off Drusus, who was unable to keep his word, and who was sick of the disturbances which he had rashly excited; a death very seasonable at such a crisis. Nevertheless, the allies did not, on that account, cease to demand, by force of arms, the performance of Drusus's promise from the Roman people.
CHAP. XVIII. THE WAR WITH THE ALLIES.
Though this war be called a war with the allies, to extenuate the odium of it, it was, if we acknowledge the truth, a civil war. For as the people of Rome united in itself the Etrurians, the Latins, and the Sabines, and derives one blood from them all, it formed one body of those several members, and is one people composed of them all. Nor did the allies with less disgrace excite an insurrecton within Italy than the citizens within the city.
When the allies, therefore, had with great justice[10] demanded the freedom of a city which they had strengthened by their exertions, (with the hope of which Drusus, from a desire of getting power, had inspired them,) the same firebrand that burned Drusus, inflamed the allies, after he was cut off by the perfidy of his fellow-citizens, to take up arms and attack the city. Than such an outbreak what could be more sad, what more calamitous? when all Latium and Picenum, all Etruria and Campania, and at last Italy itself, rose up in arms against their metropolis and parent; when those monsters of ingratitude from the municipal towns led all the flower of our most brave and faithful allies under their several standards, Popedius heading the Marsians, Afranius the Latins, their whole senate and consuls the Umbrians,[11] and Telesinus the Samnites and Lucanians; and when a people that was arbiter of princes and nations could not govern itself, and Rome, that had conquered Asia and Europe, was assailed from Corfinium.
The first step in the war was to have been taken on the Alban Mount, when, on the destival of the Latin Feriae, the consuls, Julius Caesar and Marcus Philippus, were to have been assassinated amidst the sacrifices and altars. That atrocity being prevented by a discovery, the whole fury of the war burst forth at Asculum, where certain commissioners, who had come from Rome, were slain in the midst of a crowd at the public games. This outrage bound them, as it were by an oath, to prosecute this impious war. Immediately, therefore, the various signals for hostilities sounded through tribes and cities from every quarter of Italy, Popedius, the leader and authro of the war, hurrying about from one place to another. Neither the devastation spread by Hannibal, nor that by Pyrrhus, was so great as the present. Ocriculum and Grumentum, Fesulae and Carseoli, Reate, Nuceria, and Picentia, were laid waste with slaughter, fire, and sword. The forces of Rutilius, the forces of Caepio, were alike defeated. Julius Caesar himself, having lost his army, and being brought back to Rome covered with blood, passed through the city a wretched corpse. But the great good fortune of the Roman people, always more remarkable in adversity than prosperity, rose again in all its might. Their generals, respectively, defeated the people whom they attacked; Cato dispersed the Etrurians, Gabinius the Marsians, Carbo the Lucanians, Sylla the Samnites; and Pompeius Strabo, laying waste the country about Asculum with fire and sword, did not cease from destroying, till, by the overthrow of the place, he had made atonement to the manes of so many armies and consuls, and to the gods of so many devastated cities.
CHAP. XIX. THE WAR AGAINST THE SLAVES.
Though, in the preceding war, we fought with our allies, (which was bad enough,) yet we contended with free men, and men of good birth: but who can with patience hear of a war against slaves on the part of a people at the head of all nations? The first was with slaves occurred in the infancy of Rome, in the heart of the city, when Herdonius Sabinus was their leader, and when, while the state was distracted with the seditions of the tribunes, the Capitol was besieged and wrested by the consul from the servile multitude. But this was an insurrection rather than a war. At a subsequent period, when the forces of the empire were engaged in different parts of the world, who would believe that Sicily was much more cruelly devastated by a war with slaves than in that with the Carthaginians? This country, fruitful in corn, and, in a manner, a suburban province, was covered with large estates of many Roman citizens; and the numerous slave-houses, and fettered tillers of the ground, supplied enough force for a war. A certain Syrian, by name Eunus, (the greatness of our defeats from him makes us remember it,) counterfeiting a fanatical inspiration, and tossing his hair in honour of the Syrian goddess, excited the slaves, by command of heaven as it were, to claim their liberty and take up arms. And that he might prove this to be done by supernatural direction, he concealed a nut in his mouth, which he had filled with brimstone and fire, and, breathing gently, sent forth flame together with his words. This prodigy at first attracted two thousand of such as came in his way; but in a short time, by breaking open the slave-houses, he collected a force of above sixty thousand; and, being adorned with ensigns of royalty, that nothing might be wanting to his audacity, he laid waste, with lamentable desolation, fortresses, towns, and villages. The camps even of praetors (the utmost disgrace of war) were taken by him; nor will I shrink from giving their names; they were the camps of Manilius, Lentulus, Piso, and Hypsaeus. Thus those, who ought to have been dragged home[12] by slave-takers, persued praetorian generals routed in battle. At last vengeance was taken on them by our general Perperna; for having conquered them, and at last besieged them in Enna, and reduced them with famine as with a pestilence, he threw the remainder of the marauders into chains, and then crucified them. But over such enemies he was content with an ovation, that he might not sully the dignity of a triumph with the name of slaves.
Scarcely had the island recovered itself, when it passed from the hands of a Syrian slave to those of a Cilician. Athenio, a shepherd, having killed his master, formed his slaves, whom he had released from the slave-house, into a regular troop. Then, equipped with a purple robe and a silver sceptre, and with a crown on his head like a king, he drew together no less an army than the fanatic his predecessor, and laying waste, with even greater fury, (as if taking vengeance for his fate,) villages, fortresses, and towns, he vented his rage upon the masters, but still more violently on the slaves, whom he treated as renegades. By him, too, some armies of praetors were overthrown, and the camps of Servilius and Lucullus taken. But Aquilius, following the example of Perperna, reduced the enemy to extremites by cutting off his supplies, and easily destroyed by famine forces which were well defended by arms. They would have surrendered, had they not, from dread of punishment, preferred a voluntary death. Not even on their leader could chastisement be inflicted, though he fell alive into our hands, for while the people were disputing who should secure him, the prey was torn to pieces between the contending parties.
CHAP. XX. THE WAR AGAINST SPARTACUS.
We may, however, support the dishonour of a war with slaves, for though they are, by their circumstances, subjected to all kinds of treatment, they are yet, as it were, a second class of men, and may be admitted to the enjoyment of liberty with ourselves. But the war raised by the efforts of Spartacus I know not what name to call, for the soldiers in it were slaves, and the commanders gladiators; the former being persons of the meanest condition, and the latter men of the worst character, and adding to the calamity of their profession by its contempibleness. Spartacus, Crixus, and Oenomaus, breaking out of the fencing school of Lentulus, escaped from Capua, with not more than thirty of the same occupaion, and, having called the slaves to their standard, and collected a force of more than ten thousand men, were not content with merely having escaped, but were eager to take vengeance on their masters. The first theatre for action that attracted them was Mount Vesuvius. Here, being besieged by Clodius Glaber, they slid down a passage in the hollow part of the mountain, by means of ropes made of vine-branches, and pentrated to the very bottom of it; when, issuing forth by an outlet apparently impracticable, they captured, by a sudden attack, the camp of the Roman general, who expected no molestation. They afterwards took other camps, and spread themselves to Cora, and through the whole of Campania. Not content with plundering the country seats and villages, they ravaged, with terrible devastation, Nola and Nuceria, Thurii and Metapontum. Being joined with new forces day after day and forming themselves into a regular army, they made themselves, out fo osiers and beasts' hides, a rude kind of shields, and out of the iron from the slave-houses forged swords and other weapons. And that nothing proper might be wanting to the complement of the army, they procured cavalry by breaking in the herds of horses that came in their way, and conferred upon their leader the ensigns and fasces that they took from the praetors. Nor did he, who of a mercenary Thracian had become a Roman soldier, of a soldier a deserter and robber, and afterwards, from consideration of his strength, a gladiator, refuse to receive them. He afterwards, indeed, celebrated the funerals of his own officers, who died in battle, with the obsequies of Roman generals, and obliged the prisoners to fight with arms at their funeral piles, just as if he could atone for all past dishonours by becoming, from a gladiator, an exhibitor of shows of gladiators. Engaging next with the armies of the consuls, he cut to pieces that of Lentulus, near the Apennines, and destroyed the camp of Caius Cassius at Mutina. Elated by which success, he deliberated (which is sufficient disgrace for us) about assailing the city of Rome. At length an effort was made against this swordsman with the whole force of the empire, and Licinius Crassus avenged the honour of Rome, by whom the enemies (I am ashamed to call them so) being routed and put to flight, betook themselves to the furthest parts of Italy. Here, being shut up in a corner in Bruttium, and attempting to escape into Sicily, but having no ships, and having in vain tried, on the swift current of the strait, to sail on rafts made of hurdles and casks tied together with twigs, they at last sallied forth, and died a death worthy of men. As was fitting under a gladiator captain, they fought without sparing themselves.[13] Spartacus himself, fighting with the utmost bravery in the front of the battle, fell as became their general.
CHAP. XXI. THE CIVIL WAR OF MARIUS AND SYLLA.
This only was wanting to complete the misfortunes of the Romans, that they should raise an unnatural war among themselves, and that, in the midst of the city and forum, citizens should fight with citizens, like gladiators in an amphitheatre. I should bear the calamity, however, with greater patience, if plebeian leaders or contemptible nobles had been at the head of such atrocity; but even Marius and Sylla,[14] (O indignity! such men, such generals!) the grace and glory of their age, lent their eminent characters to this worst of evils. It was carried on, if I may use the expression, under three constellations,[15] the first movement being light and moderate, an affray rather than a war, for the violence prevailed only between the leaders themselves; in the next rising, the victory spread with greater cruelty and bloodshed, through the very bowels of the whole senate; the third conflict exceeded not merely animosity between citizens, but that between enemies, the fury of the war being supported by the strength of all Italy, and rancour raging till none remained to be killed.
The origin and cause of the war was Marius's insatiable ambition of honours, in endeavouring to procure for himself the province decreed to Sylla by a law of Sulpicius.</ref>A law of Sulpicius] Silpicia lege. Sulpicius was a tribune of the people who had procured a law to be passed for this purpose.</ref> Sylla, provoked at this injustice, immediately led back his legions, and, putting off the war with Mithridates, poured two bodies of troops into the city by the Esquiline and Colline gates. Here Sulpicius and Albinovanus designedly throwing their troops in his way, and sticks, stones, and other weapons, being discharged on him on all sides from the walls, he himself also threw weapons in return, and forced a passage even by fire, and triumphantly occupied the citadel on the Capitoline hill as a captured fortress, a place which had escaped being taken by the Carthaginians and the Gauls. Having then, by a decree of the senate, pronounced his opponents enemies to the state, he proceeded to the utmost severities, by forms of law, upon the tribune who was present,[16] and others of the adverse faction. Flight like that of slave saved Marius, or rather Fortune preserved him for another war.
In the consulship of Cornelius Cinna and Cnaeus Octavius, the fire, which had been but imperfectly suppressed, burst forth afresh, ebing excited, indeed, by a disagreement between the consuls themselves, on a proposal being made to the senate for recalling such as the senate had declared enemies. The assembly met armed with swords, but the party that preferred peace and quiet prevailing, Cinna was driven from the country, and fled to join Marius. Marius then returned from Africa, the greater for his misfortunes; for the report of his imprisonment, chains, flight, and exile, had surrounded his dignity with a certain awe. At the name of so great a man people flocked together from all parts; slaves, (a disgraceful proceeding,) and persons condemned to the prisons, were armed in his cause; and the unhappy general easily found an army. Claiming by force, therefore, a restoration to his country from which he had by force been expelled, he might seem to have acted with justice, had he not stained his cause with cruelty. But as he returned at enmity with gods and men,[17] at the first irruption of his fury, Ostia, the ward and foster-child of the city, was pillaged with miserable havoc; and his army next entered Rome in four bodies, Cinna, Marius, Carbo, and Sertorius, dividing the troops amongst them. Here, when the whole force of Octavius had been driven from the Janiculum, and a signal had been immediately after given for the slaughter of the leading men, somewhat more cruelty was shown than would have been practiced in a town of the Carthaginians or the Cimbri. The head of the consul Octavius was exposed upon the Rostra; that of Antonius, who had held the consulship, was displayed on Marius's dining-table; the Caesars[18] were killed by Fimbria in the midst of their own household-gods; the two Crassi, father and son, each in the sight of the other; the hooks of the executioners dragged Baebius and Numitorius through the middle of the forum; Catulus released himself from the insults of his enemies by swallowing fire; Merula, the priest of Jupiter, sprinked the face of Jupiter himself with blood from his veins; Ancharius was stabbed in the sight of Marius himself, because, forsooth, he did not stretch out that fatal hand[19] Such and so many deaths of senators did the seventh consulship of Marius produce, between the calends and ides of the month of January. What would have happened if he had completed the year of his consulship?
In the consulate of Scipio and Norbanus the third tempest of civil rage thundered forth with its whole fury, eight legions, and five hundred cohorts, being ranged in arms on the one side, and on the other Sylla returning from Asia with his victorious army. And since Marius had been so cruel to the party of Sylla, how much further cruelty was necessary that Sylla might be avenged on Marius? The first conflict took place at Capua, near the river Vulturnus, where the army of Norbanus was instantly put to flight, and the forces of Scipio, immediately afterwards, surprised, while hopes of peace were held out to them. The younger Marius and Carbo, being then made consuls, as if despairing of ultimate victory, but purposing not to fall unavenged, sacrificed to their own manes, as it were, beforehand, with the blood of the senate; and the senate-house being beset, its members were led forth, as prisoners from a gaol, to be put to death. What slaughters were committed in the Forum, in the Circus, in the open temples! Quintus Mucius Scaevola, one of the pontifices, embracing the Vestal altars, was almost buried in the same fire with them. Lamponius and Telesinus, eladers of the Samnites, wasted Campania and Etruria more cruelly than Pyrrhus and Hannibal had done, and revenged themselves under pretence of supporting their party. But at Sacriportus, and the Colline gate, all the forces of Marius were defeated. At the former place Marius, at the latter Telesinus, was conquered. the end of the war, however, was not the end of the massacres; for swords were drawn even in peae, and vengeance was taken even on such as had voluntarily surrendered. It was a less atrocity that Sylla cut to pieces more than seventy thousand men at Sacriportus and the Colline gate, for it was then war; but it was a greater than he ordered four thousand unarmed citizens to be butchered in the Villa Publica.[20] Were there so many killed in peace, and no more? Who, inded, can reckon those whom every one that would, killed in the city? until Fufidius admonishing Sylla that "some ought to be left alive, that there might be people for them to rule," that great proscription-list was put forth, and two thousand were selected, out of the equestrian and senatorial orders, to be sentenced to die. This was an edict of a new kind. It grieves me to state, after these proceedings, that the deaths of Carbo, Soranus the praetor, and Venuleius, were subjects of sport; that Baebius was severed limb from limb, not by the sword, but by the hands of men, like wild beasts;[21] and that Marius, the brother of the general, was kept alive awhile at the sepulchre of Catulus, his eyes being put out, and his hands and legs being cut off one after another, that he might die as it were piecemeal.
When the punishments of individuals were nearly over, the first municipal towns of Italy were put up to sale, Spoletium, Interamniusm, Praeneste, and Florence. As to Sulmo, an ancient city in alliance and friendship with us, Sylla (a heinous act) ordered it, though not taken by siege, to be destroyed; just as enemies condemned[22] by the law of arms, and malefactors sentenced to death, are ordered to be led to execution.
CHAP. XXII. THE WAR WITH SERTORIUS.
What was the war with Sertorius but a consequence of Sylla's proscription? Whether I should call it a war with foreign enemies, or a civil war, I do not know, as it was one which Lusitanians and Celtiberians carried on under the conduct of a Roman. Sertorius, a man of great but unsuccessful ability, becoming an exile and fugitive from that fatal proscription, disturned sea and land in consequence of his ill-treatment; and, trying his fortune, at one time in Africa, and at another in the Balearic isles, and being driven over the Ocean,[23] went as far as the fortunate Islands, and at length armed Spain. A brave man easily unites himself with brave men; nor did the valour of the Spanish soldiery ever appear greater than under a Roman general. Nor was he indeed content with Spain, but extended his views to Mithridates and the people of Pontus, and assisted that king with a fleet. And what would have happened if they had formed a junction? The Roman state could not withstand so powerful an enemy as Sertorius by means of one general only. To Metellus was joined Cnaeus Pompey: and these two wasted his forces for a long time, though always with doubtful success; nor was he at last subdued in the field, until he was betrayed by the villainy and treachery of those about him. Having pursued his forces through almost all Spain, they were long in reducing them, the contests being always such that victory was dubious. The first battles were fought under the command of the lieutenant-generals; Domitius and Thorius[24] making a commencement on one side, and the brothers Herculeii on the other. Soon afterwards, the two latter being overthrown at Segovia, and the former at the river of Anas, the generals themselves tried their strength in the field, and at Lauron and Sucro suffered equal loss on both sides. Part of our army them devoting itself to the devastation of the country, and part to the destruction of the cities, unhappy Spain suffered for the disagreement between the Roman generals,[25] till Sertorius, being cut off by the treachery of his people, and Perperna being defeated and given up, the cities themselves submitted to the power of the Romans, as Osca, Termes, Tutia, Valentia, Auxima, and, after having endured the extremity of famine, Calagurris. Spain was thus restored to peace. The victorious generals would have the war accounted rather a foreign than a civil one, that they might have the honour of a triumph.
CHAP. XXIII. THE CIVIL WAR UNDER LEPIDUS.
In the consulship of Marcus Lepidus, and Quintus Catulus, a civil war that was kindled was suppressed almost before it began; but how violent was it![26] It was a spark of the great civil contention that had spread abroad its fires from the very funeral pile of Sylla. For Lepidus, in his presumption, being eager for a change in the state of affairs, prepared to annul the acts of that eminent man, and not indeed unjustly, if he could have done so without much injury to the commonwealth. But he would not; for since Sylla, as dictator, had proscribed his enemies by the right of war, if Lepidus recalled those of them that survived, for what other end were they recalled than for a war? And since Sylla had assigned the estates of the condemned citizens, though seized unjustly, yet by form of law, a demand for their restitution would no dount disturn the city that was now tranquillised. It was expedient, therefore, for the sick and wounded republic to continue upon any terms, lest its wounds should be torn open by the dressing.
Lepidus, then, having alarmed the state, as with the blast of a trumpet, by his turbulent harangues, set out for Etruria, and thence brought arms and an army against Rome. But Lutatius Catulus and Cnaeus Pompey, the captains and ringleaders under Sylla's tyranny, had previously occupied the Milvian bridge, and the Janiculan hill, with another army. Being repulsed by these generals in the first encounter, and afterwards declared an enemy by the senate, he fled back, without loss, to Etruria, and thence retired to Sardinia, where he died of disease and sorrow of mind. The conquerors, which was scarcely ever the case in the civil wars, were content with re-establishing peace.
BOOK IV.
CHAP. I. THE INSURRECTION OF CATILINE.
It was in the first place expensive indulgence, and, the next, the want of means occasioned by it, with a fair opportunity at the same time, (for the Roman forces were then abroad in the remotest part of the world,) that led Catiline to form the atrocious design of subjugating his country. With what accomplices (direful to relate!) did he undertake to murder the senate, to assassinate the consuls, to destroy the city by fire.[27] to plunder the treasury, to subvert the entire government, and to commit such outrages as not even Hannibal seems to have contemplated! He was himself a patrician; but this was only a small consideration; there were joined with him the Curii, the Porcii, the Syllae, the Cethegi, and Antronii, the Varhunteii, the Longini, (what illustrious families, what ornaments of the senate!) and Lentulus also, who was then praetor. All these he had as supporters in his horrid attempt. As a pledge to unite them in the plot, human blood[28] was introduced, which, being carried round in bowls, they drank amongst them; an act of the utmost enormity, had not that been more enormous for which they drank it. Then would have been an end of this glorious empire, if the conspiracy had not happened in the consulship of Cicero and Antonius, of whom one discovered the plot by vigilance, and the other suppressed it by arms.
The revelation of the atrocious project was made by Fulvia, a common harlot, but unwilling to be guilty of treason against her country. The consul Cicero, accordingly, having convoked the senate, amde a speech against the accused, who was then present in the house; but nothing further was effected by it, than that the enemy made off, openly and expressly declaring[29] that he would extinguish the flame raised against him by a general ruin. He then set out to an army which had been prepared by Manlius in Etruria, intending to advance under arms against the city. Lentulus, meanwhile, promising himself the kingdom portended to his family by the Sibylline verses, disposed throughout the city, against a day appointed by Catiline, men, combustibles, and weapons. And not confined to plotting among the people of the city, the rage for the conspiracy, having excited the deputies of the Allobroges, who happened then to be at Rome, to give their voice in favour of war, would have spread beyond the Alps, had not a letter of Lentulus been intercepted through the information of Vulturcius. Hands were immediately laid on the barbarian deputies, by order of Cicero; and the praetor was openly convicted by the senate. When a consultation was held about their punishment, Caesar gave his opinion that they should be spared for the sake of their rank, Cato that they should suffer the penalty due to their crime. Cato's advice being generally adopted, the traitors were strangled in prison.
But though a portion of the conspirators were thus cut off, Catiline did not desist from this enterprise. Marching, however, with an army from Etruria against his country, he was defeated by a force of Antonius that encountered him on the way. How desperate the engagement was, the result manifested; for not a man of the rebel troops survived. Whatever place each had occupied in the battle, that very spot, when life was extinct, he covered with his corpse. Catiline was found, far in advance of his men, among the dead bodies of the enemy; a most glorious death, had he thus fallen for his country.
CHAP. II. THE WAR BETWEEN CAESAR AND POMPEY.
Almost the whole world being now subdued, the Roman empire was grown too great to be overthrown by any foreign power. Fortune, in consequence, envying the sovereign people of the earth, armed it to its own destruction. The outrages of Marius and Cinna had already made a sort of prelude within the city, as if by way of trial. The storm of Sylla had thundered even further, but still within the bounds of Italy. The fury of Caesar and Pompey, as with a general deluge or conflagration, overran the city, Italy, other countries and nations, and finally the whole empire wherever it extended; so that it cannot properly be called a civil war, or war with allies; neither can it be termed a foreign war; but it was rather a war consisting of all these, or even something more than a war. If we look at the leaders in it, the whole of the senators were on one side or the other; if we consider the armies, there were on one side elevemn legions, and on the other eighteen, the entire flower and strength of the manhood of Italy; if we contemplate the auxiliary forces of the allies, there were on one side levies of Gauls and Germans, on the other Deiotarus, Ariobarzanes, Tarcondimotus,[30] Cotys, and all the force of Thrace, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Macedonia, Greece, Aetolia, and all the East; if we regard the duration of the war, it was four years, a time short in proportion to the havoc made in it; if we attend to the space and ground on which it was conducted, it arose within Italy, whence it spread into Gaul and Spain, and, returning from the west, settled with its whole force on Epirus and Thessaly; hence it suddenly passed into Egypt, then turned towards Asia, next fell upon Africa, and at last wheeled back into Spain, where it at length found its termination. But the animosities of parties did not end with the war, nor subsided till the hatred of those who had been defeated satiated itself with the murder of the conqueror in the midst of the city and the senate.
The cause of this calamity was the same with that of all others, excessive good fortune. For in the consulship of Quintus Metellus and Lucius Afranius, when the majesty of Rome predominated thoughout the world, and Rome herself was celebrating, in the theatres of Pmpey, her recent victories and triumphs over Pontus and Armenia, the overgrown power of Pompey, as is usual in similar cases, excited among the idle citizens a feeling of envy towards him. Metellus, discontented at the diminution of his triumph over Crete,[31] Cato, ever an enemy to those in power, calumniated Pompey, and raised a clamour against his acts. Resentment as such conduct drove Pompey to harsh measures, and impelled him to provide some support for his authority. Crassus happened at that time to be distinguished for family, wealth, and honour, but was desirous to have his power still greater. Caius Caesar had become eminent by his eloquence and spirit, and by his promotion to the consulate. Yet Pompey rose above them both. Caesar, therefore, being eager to acquire distinction, Crassus to increase what he had got, and Pompey to add to his, and all being equally covetous of power, they readily formed a compact to seize the government. Striving, accordingly, with their common forces, each for his own advancement, Caesar took the province of Gaul, Crassus that of Asia, Pompey that of Spain; they had three vast armies,[32], and thus the empire of the world was now held by these three leading personages. Ther government extended through ten years. At the expiration of this period, (for they had previously been kept in restraint by dread of one another,) a rivalry broke forth between Caesar and Pompey, consequent to the death of Crassus among the Parthians, and that of Julia, who, being married to Pompey, maintained a good understanding between the son-in-law and fathr-in-law by means of this matrimonial bond. But now the power of Caesar was an object of jealousy to Pompey, and the eminence of Pompey was offensive to Caesar. The one could not bear an equal nor the other a superior. Sad to relate, they struggled for mastery, as if the resources of so great an empire would not suffice for two. Accordingly, in the consulship of Lentulus and Marcellus, their first bond of union being broken, the senate, that is, Pompey, began to think of a successor to Caesar in the consulate; nor did Caesar refuse to comply with their wishes, if regard were but had to him at the following election. But the consulship, which ten tribunes of the people, with Pompey's approbation, had recently decreed him in his absence, was now, as Pompey remained neutral, refused him. It was insisted "that he should come and sue for it according to ancient usage." He, on the other hand, demanded what had been decreed him, and declared, that unless they adhered to their word, he would not part with his army. A decree was accordingly passes against him as an enemy.
Caesar, provoked at these proceedings, resolved to secure the rewards of arms by means of arms. The first scene of acion, in this civil war, was Italy, of which Pompey had occupied the strongholds with light garrisons. But they were all ovrpowered by the sudden advance of Caesar. The first signal for battle sounded from Ariminium, when Libo was expelled from Etruria, Thermus from Umbria, and Domitius from Corfinium. The war would have been finished without bloodshed, if Caesar could have surprised Pompey at Brundusium; and he would have surprised him, had he not escaped by night through the barricade of the beseiged harbour. Dishonourable to relate! he that was recently at the head of the senate, the arbiter of peace and war, fled across the sea, over which he had once triumphed, in a single vessel that was shattered and almost dismantled. Nor was Pompey driven from Italy sooner than the senate was forced from the city, which Caesar having entered, when it was almost evacuated from fear of him, created himself consul. The sacred treasury, too, as the tribunes were slow in unlocking it, he ordered to be broken open, seizing the revenue and property of the Roman people before he seized their empire.
Pompey being driven off and put to flight, Caesar thought it better to regulate the provinces before proceedings to pursue him. Sicily and Sardinia, to be assured of corn, he secured by means of his lieutenant-generals. In Gaul there were no remains of hostility; for he himelf had established peace in it. But Marseilles, when he wished to pass through it on his way to the Spanish armies of Pompey, ventured to shut her gates against him. The unhappy city, desirous of peace, fell into a war through fear of war. But, as it was fortified with walls, he lft it to be reduced for him in his absence. The men of the Greek city, in opposition to the effeminacy of its character,[33] ventured to break through the enemy's lines, to set fire to their machines, and angage them with their vessels. But Brutus, to whom the conduct of the siege had been intrusted, defeated them by land and sea, and utterly subdued them. At length, when they surrendered, everything was taken from them, except, what they valued above everything, their liberty.
In Spain, a doubtful, varied, and bloody contest awaited Caesar with Petreius and Afranius, the generals of Pompey, whom, when they were lying encamped at Ilerda, near the river Sicoris, he attempted to besiege, and to cut them off from the town. In the mean time, by an overflow of the river in the spring, he himself was prevented from getting provisions. Thus his camp was assailed by famine, and the besieger was himself in a manner besieged. But when the river subsided, it left the plains free for devastation and contest. Caesar then pressed fiercely upon the enemy, and, having overtaken them as they were retreating to Celtiberia, forced them with a mole and line of circimvallation, and consequent privation of water, to capitulate.
Hither Spain was thus secured; nor did Farther Spain long resist. For what could one legion do, after five had been defeated? Varro, therefore, readily submitting, Cadiz, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Ocean, and everything else, acknowledged the superior fortune of Caesar. Fortune, however, in Illyricum and Africa, made some attempt against him in his absence, as if on purpose that his successed might be made more striking by something unfavourable. For when Dolabella and Antony, who were ordered to secure the entrance to the Adriatic, had pitched their camps, the former on the Illyrian, the latter on the Curictian shore,[34] at a time when Pompey was master of a vast extent of sea, Octavius Libo, Pompey's lieutenant-general, suddenly surrounded both of them with a large force from the fleet. Famine forced Antony to surrender. Some flat boats sent to his assistance by Basilus, such as want of ships had obliged them to make, were caught, as it were, in a net, by means of ropes stretched under the water, through a new contrivance of the Cilicians in Pompey's service. Two of them, however, the tide brought off; but one, which bore some men of Opitergium, struck upon the shallows, and underwent a fate deserving to be remembered by posterity. A party of something less than a thousand men[35] sustained, for a whole day, the weapons of an army that entirely surrounded them; and, when their valour had no way of escape, they agred, in order to avoid a surrender, and at the instigation of the tribune Vulteius, to kill one another.
In Africa the valour of Curio was equalled by his ill-fortune; for, being sent to secure that province, and elated with the conquest and rout of Varus, he was unable to make a stand against the sudden arrival of the king Juba and the Mauretanian cavalry. After he was defeated, he might have fled; but shame prompted him to die with the army which was lost by his rashness.
But fortune now summoning the pair of combatants, destined to contend for the empire of the world, Pompey fixed on Epirus for the seat of warfare, nor was Caesar slow to meet him; for, having settled everything in his rear, he set sail, though the middle of winter obstructed his passage by unfavourable weather, to pursue the war; and, having pitched his camp at Oricum, and finding that part of his forces, which had been left with Antony for want of ships, made some delay at Brundusium, he grew so impatient, that, to get them over, he attempted so sail alone in a spy-boat at midnight, though the sea was tempestuously agitated by the wind. A saying of his to the master of the boat, who was alarmed at the greatness of the danger, is well remembered; "What dost thou fear? Thou carriest Caesar."
When the forces of Caesar and Pompey were assembled from every quarter, and their camps were pitched at no great distance, the plans conceived by the generals were widely different. Caesar, naturally daring, and eager to bring the affair to a conclusion, displayed his troops, and challenged and harassed the enemy, sometimes besieging their camp, which he had inclosed with a wall of sixteen miles in circuit; (but what hurt could a siege do to those who, from the sea being open, had an abundance of supplies?) sometimes by fruitless attacks on Dyrrachium, (a place which even its situation rendered impregnable,) and, at the same time, by constant engagements with their parties as they sallied out, (at which time the extraordinary valour of Scaeva the centurion was displayed, into whose shield a hundred and twenty weapons penetrated,)[36] as well as by plundering such cities as had joined Pompey, among which he wasted Oricum, and Gomphi, and other strongholds of Thessaly. To counteract these attempts, Pompey contrived delays, and declined to fight, in order that he might wear out the enemy, who were hemmed in on all sides, with want of provisions, and that the ardour of his impetuous opponent might be exhausted. But the prudent plan of the general did not long avail him; the soldiers found fault with the inaction in which they were kept, the allies with the protraction of the war, and the nobility with the general's love of power. Thus the fates hurrying him on, Thessaly was chosen as the theatre for battle, and the destiny of the city, the empire, and the whole of mankind, was committed to the plains of Philippi. Never did fortune behold so many of the forces, or so much of the dignity, of the Roman people collected in one place. More that three hundred thousand men were assembled in the two armies, besides the auxiliary troops of kings and nations. Nor were there ever more manifest signs of some approaching destruction; the escape of victims, swarms of bees settling on the standards, and darkness in the daytime; while the general himself, in a dream by night, heard a clapping of hands in his own theatre in Rome, which rung in his ears like the beating of breasts in sorrow; and he appeared in the morning (an unlucky omen!) clad in black in the centre of the army.
As to the army of Caesar, it was never possessed of greater spirit and alacrity. It was on his side that the trumpets first sounded, and the darts were first discharged. The javelin of Crastinus, too, was noticed as that of the beginner of the battle; who, being soon after found among the dead bodies of the enemy, with a sword thrust into his mouth, proved by the strangeness of the wound the eagerness and rage with which he fought. Nor was the issue of the contest less wonderful. For though Pompey had so much larger a number of horse, that he seemed capable of easily hemming in Caesar, he was himself hemmed in. When they had fought a long time without advantage on either side, and Pompey's cavalry had galloped foreard at his command from one of the wings, the German cohorts on the other side, at a given signal, suddenly met the horse in their course with so furious a charge, that the cavalry seemed to be but infantry, and the infantry to advance with the force of cavalry. On the overthrow of the retreating horse followed the destruction of the light-armed foot. Consternation then spreading wider and wider, and the troos of Pompey throwing each other into confusion, the slaughter of the rest was effected as with one hand,[37] nor did anything contribute to the overthrow of the army so much as its magnitude. Caesar exerted himself greatly in the battle, acting a middle part, as it were, between a commander and a soldier. Some sayings of his, too, which fell from him as he rode about, were caught up; one of which was cruel, but judicious and conducive to the victory, "Soldiers, strike at the face;" another, uttered when he was in pursuit, was intended only for effect, "Spare your countrymen."
Happy had Pompey been, though in misfortune, had the same fate that overwhelmed his army fallen upon himself. He survived his honour, to flee on horseback, with more disgrace, through Thessalian Tempe; to reach Lesbos in one small vessel; to be driven from Syedrae,[38] and to meditate, upon a desert rock of Cilicia, an escape to Parthia, Africa, or Egypt; and finally, to die on the shore of Pelusium, in sight of his wife and children, at the word of a most contemptible prince, at the instigation of eunuchs, and, that nothing might be wanting to his calamities, by the sword of Septimius, a deserter from his own army.
With the death of Pompey who would not have supposed that the war had been concluded? But the ashes of the fire of Thessaly burst forth into flame again with much more violence and heat than before. In Egypt, indeed, a war arose against Caesar without the influence of Roman faction. Ptolemy, king of Alexandria, having committed the crowning atrocity of the civil war, and assured himself of the friendship of Caesar by means of Pompey's head, but Fortune, at the same time, demanding vengeance for the manes of so great a man, an opportunity for her purpose was not long wanting. Cleopatra, the king's sister, falling at the feet of Caesar, intreated that a part of the kingdom might be restored to her. The damsel[39] had beauty, and its attractions were heightened by the circumstance that, being such as she was, she seemed to have suffered injustice; while Caesar had a dislike for the king[40] her brother, who had sacrified Pompey to the fortune of party, and not from regard to Caesar, and who would doubtless have treated Caesar himself in a similar manner, had his interest required it. Caesar, desiring that Cleopatra should be reinstated in power, was immediately beset in the palace by the same persons that had assassinated Pompey; but with wonderful bravery, though only with a small body of troops, he withstood the efforts of a numerous army. In the first place, by setting fire to the neighbouring houses and dockyards, he kept at a distance the darts of his eager enemies, and then suddenly made his escape to the island of Phaos. Being driven from thence into the sea, he swam off, with wonderful good fortune, to his fleet that lay at hand, leaving his military cloak in the water, whether by chance, or with a view to its receiving, instead of himself, the shower of darts and stones hurled by the enemy. At length being taken up by the men of his fleet, and attacking the enemy on all sides at once, he made atonement to the manes of his son-in-law by a conquest of that perfidious nation. Thedotus the king's guardian, the author of the whole war, and Pothinus and Ganymede, monsters that were not even men, after fleeing in various directions over sea and land, were cut off by death. The body of the king himself was found buried in the mud of the river, distiguished by a golden coat of mail.
In Asia, too, there arose a new commotion from Pontus, Fortune apparently, and as it were purposely, taking this opportunity to terminate the kingdom of Mithridates, that as the father was conquered by Pompey, the son might be conquered by Caesar. King Pharnaces, presuming more on our dissensions than on his own valour, poured into Cappadocia with an army ready for action. But Caesar, engaging him, overthrew him in one battle, and that, as I may say, not an entire one, falling upon him like lightning, which, in one and the same moment, comes, strikes, and is gone.[41] Nor was it a vain boast on the part of Caesar, "that the enemy was conqered before he was seen."
Such were the occurences with foreig enemies. But in Africa he had a fiercer contest with his own countrymen than at Pharsalia. A tide of civil fury had driven the relics of the shipwrecked party to this country; relics, indeed we should hardly call them, but rather a complete warlike force. The very calamity of the general had strengthened the obligation[42] of their military oath; nor did the succeeding eladers show any degeneracy; for the names of Cato and Scipio had a sufficiently effective sound in the room of that of Pompey. To the force on that side was added Juba, king of Mauritania, as if that Caesar might carry his conquests the further. There was therefore no difference in the fields of Pharsalia and Thapsus, except that the efforts of the Caesarians were greater and more vigorous, as being indignant that the war should have grown up after the death of Pompey. The trumpeters (what had never happened before) sounded a charge of themselves, before the general gave an order for it. The overthrow began with Juba, whose elephants, new to war, and lately brought from the woods, were startled at the sudden noise, and his army immediately took to flight. Nor were the leaders too brave[43] to flee, though the deaths of them all were not inglorious. Scipio got off in a ship, but, as the enemy overtook him, he thrust his sword into his bowels, and when some one asked where he was, he retrned this answer, "The general is well." Juba, habing betaken himself to his palace, and having banqueted sumptuously on the following day with Petreius the companion of his flight, offered himself, at table, in the midst of their cups, to be killed by his hand. Petreius slew both Juba and himself, and the half-consumed meats, and funeral dishes,[44] were mixed with the blood of a king and a Roman. Cato was not at the battle, but, having pitched his camp on the Bagrada, guarded Utica, as a second barrier of Africa.</ref>As a second barrier of Afrca] Velut altera Africae claustra. Thapsus having been the other.</ref> Hearing, however, of the defeat of his party, he did not hesitate to die, but even cheerfully, as became a wise man, hastened his own death. Dismissing his son and attendants with an embrace, and reading in the night, by the light of a lamp, that book of Plato which treats of immortality of the soul, he afterwards rested a while, but, about the first watch, having drawn his sword, he pierced his breast, which he had uncovered with his hand, more than once. After this the surgeons would needs trouble him with plasters, which he endured till they were gone, and then opened the gashes afresh, when a vast quantity of blood issuing foth made his dying hands sink on the wounds.
But as if there had hitherto been no fighting war, and the party of Pompey, arose again; and Spain exceeded Africa in the struggle as much as Africa had exceeded Thessaly. What now attracted great regard to the party, was, that the two generals were brothers, and that two Pompeys had appeared instead of one. Never, therefore, were there fiercer encounters, or with such dubious success. First of all, Varus and Didius, the lieutenant-generals, engaged at the very mouth of the Ocean.[45] But their vessels had a harder contest with the sea, than with one another. For the Ocean, as if it would punish the discord of fellow-citzens, destroyed both fleets by shipwreck. What an awful scene was it, when waves, storms, men, ships, and arms, mingled in contention at the same time! Consider, too, the frightful nature of the situation itself; the shores of Spain, on the one side, and of Mauretania on the other, closing as it were together; the internal and external seas,[46] and the pillars of Hercules overhanging them, while all around was agitated with a battle and a tempest.
Soon after, they applied themselves, in various quarters, to the sieges of cities, which, between the leaders on one side and the other, paid a severe penalty for their alliance with Rome. Of the battles, the last was fought at Munda. Here the contest was not attended with Caesar's previous success, but was long doubtful and threatening, so that Fortune seemed evidently hesitating how to act. Caesar, too, before the battle, was more low-spirited than ordinary, whether from meditating on the instability of human things, from a feeling of mistrust of his long-continued prosperity, or from dreading Pompey's fate after having obtained Pompey's station. But in the course of the battle there occurred an incident, such as no man ever remembered to have heard of before; for when the two armies, equal in fortune, had been wholly engaged in mutual slaughter, there happened suddenly, in the greatest heat of the combat, a deep silence, as if by common consent, on both sides. This was an expression of general feeling.[47] At last came the dire misfortune, strange to the eyes of Caesar, that after fourteen years of service, his tried body of veterans gave ground. They did not indeed flee, but they seemed to resist rather from being ashamed to retreat than from real courage. Springing off his horse, therefore, he rushed like a madman to the front of the battle, where he stayed and encouraged those that were shrinking, and made his influence felt through the whole body with eye, hand, and voice. Yet, in the confusion, he is said to have meditated death, and to have shown plainly by his looks that he was inclined to hasten his end, had not five battalions of the enemy, which then marched across the field, and which had been sent by Labienus to defend the camp that was in danger, caused an appearance of flight. This the crafty general either believed, or took advantage of the movement to make it appear; and, advancing on the enemy as if they were fleeing, he both raised the courage of his own men, and damped that of his opponents. The party of Caesar, thinking themselves conquerors, pressed forward with greater spirit; that of Pompey, supposing some on their side to be fleeing, commenced a general flight. How great the slaughter of the enemy was, and how great the rage and fury of the conquerors, may be estimated from the following circumstance. The fugitives from the battle having taken refuge in Munda, and Caesar, giving orders that they should immediately be besieged, a rampart was formed of dead bodies heaped on one another, which were held together by being stuck through with lances and javelins; a spectacle that would have been horrible even among barbarians.
When Pompey's sons had lost all hope of victory, Caesonius, having overtaken Cnaeus, who had fled from the field of battle, and was making his way, with a wound in his leg, to some desert and solitary place, slew him in the town of Lauron, still fighting, and proving that his spirit was not utterly broken. Fortune, meanwhile, hid Sextus in Celtiberia, and reserved him for other wars after Caesar's time.
Caesar returned triumphant to his native city. The Rhine, the Rhone, and the subjugated Ocean formed of gold, represented his first triumph, for Gaul. The second was for Egypt; when the Nile, Arsinoe, and the Pharos burning like fire, were displayed.[48] The third was for Pharnaces and Pontus. The fourth was displayed for Juba and the Moors, and twice-conquered Spain. But Pharaslia, Thapsus, and Munda, were nowhere to be seen; yet how much greater were those actions for which he had no triumph![49]
There was now, at last, an end of hostilites. The peace that followed was free from bloodshed, and atonement was made for the war by clemency. No one was put to death by Caesar's order except Afranius, (it was enough that he had pardoned him once,) and Faustus Sylla, (he had learned to be afraid of sons-in-law,)[50] and the daughter of Pompey with her children by Sylla; in which proceeding regard was had to posterity.[51] His countrymen, therefore, being not ungrateful, all kinds of honours were conferred on him as the sole governor of the state; as statues in the temples, a radiant crown to wear in the theatre, a raised seat in the senate-house, a cupola on his own house, and a month in the heavens. He was, besides, called Father of his country, and Perpetual Dictator; and at last, whether with his own consent is doubtful, the ensigns of royalty were offered him on the Rostra by the consul Antony.
But all these honours were but as decorations laid on a victim doomed to die. The envy of others overcame the clemency of the ruler, and his very power of conferring benefits was insupportable to the free. Nor was long delay granted him, before Brutus and Cassius, and others of the nobility, conspired to put him to death. How great is the power of fate! The knowledge of the conspiracy had spread widely; an account of it, on the very day fixed for its execution, had been presented to Caesar himself; nor was he able, when he sacrificed, to find one in a hundred victims propitious. Yet he ventured into the senate-house, meditating an expedition against the Parthians. Here, as he was sitting in his curule chair, the senate fell upon him, and he was struck to the ground with three-and-twenty wounds. Thus he, who had deluged the world with the blood of his countrymen, deluged the senate-house at last with his own.
CHAP. III. CAESAR AUGUSTUS.
The Roman people, when Caesar and Pompey were killed, thought that they had returned to their state of pristine freedom; and they would have returned to him, had neither Pompey left children, nor Caesar an heir; or, what was worse, had not Antony, once the sharer and afterwards the rival of Caesar's power, survived to be the incendiary and disturber of the succeeding age. For as Sextus Pompey sought to recover what was his father's, consternation was spread over the whole sea; as Octavius tried to revenge his father's death,[52] Thessaly was again to be disquieted; and as Antony, a man of fickle disposition, either showed displeasure, that Octavius should succeed Caesar, or, from love of Cleopatra, was ready to degenerate into a king,[53] the Romans could not otherwise find safety but by taking refuge in a state of servitude. Yet, in the midst of their great distractions, it was a source of congratulations to them that the sovereign power fell into the hands of Augustus Caesar, rather than those of any other man; for he, by his wisdom and prudence, reduced to order the body of the empire, which was distracted in every part, and which, doubtless, would never have coalesced and harmonised again, had it not been regulated by the direction of one president, as by one soul and mind.
In the consulship of Mark Antony and Publius Dolabella, when Fortune was proceeding to transfer the empire to the Caesars, there arose various and manifold convulsions in the state; and, as it happens in the annual revolution of the heavens, that the constellations by their motions occasion thunder, and make known their change of place by change of weather, so, in the change of condition in the Roman government, that is, of the whole human race, the body of the empire was shaken throughout, and distracted with all kinds of perils, and civil wars both by land and sea.
CHAP. IV. THE CONFLICT AT MUTINA.
The first occasion of civil commotion was Caesar's will, whose second heir,[54] Antony, enraged that Octavius was preferred before him, raised a desperate war to set aside the adoption of the spirited young man. Seeing that he was but a tender youth, under eighteen years of age, and therefore a fit and proper subject, as he thought, for any ill-usage, while he himself was of high dignity from his long service with Caesar, he proceeded to dismember his inheritance by clandestine acts of injustice, to attack him personally with opprobrious language, and to hinder, by all imaginable artifices, his co-optation into the Julian family. At last, to crush the young man entirely, he openly took up arms against him, and, having got an army in Cisalpine Gaul, besieged Decimus Brutus, who opposed his movements, in Mutina; but Octavius Caesar, recommended to public favour by his age and injuries, and by the greatness of the name which he had assumed, recalled the veterans to arms, and, though but a private person, engaged (who would believe it?) with a consul. He relieved Brutus from the siege at Mutina, and drove Antony from his camp. On that occasion, too, he behaved gallantly in action; for, wounded and covered with blood, he carried back an eagle, which had been committed to him by a dying standard-bearer, upon his shoulder into the camp.
CHAP. V. THE SIEGE OF PERUSIA.
The distribution of lands among the soldiers occasioned another war; lands which Caesar assigned the veterans in his army as the reward of their service. Fulvia, the wife of Antony, girt with a sword in the field like a man, stimulated Antony's mind, which otherwise was always sufficiently ill-disposed, to action. By rousing the husbandmen, therefore, who had been driven from their lands, he produced another war. Caesar now attacked him as one attacks an enemy, not by private opinion, but by the suffrages of the whole senate, shut him up within the walls of Perusia, and, by means of a wretched famine, that had recourse to every expedient, forced him at last to a surrender.
CHAP. VI. THE TRIUMVIRATE.
When Antony, even alone, was a hindrance to the public quiet, and a trouble to the state, Lepidus was joined with him, as one fire to another. What could Caesar then do[55] against two armies? He was necessitated to join in a most cruel league with their leaders. The views of all the three were different. The desire of wealth, of which there was a fair prospect from a disturbance of the state, animated Lepidus; the hope of taking vengeance on those who had declared him an enemy, instigated Antony; the death of his father unavenged, while Cassius and Brutus lived offensive to his manes, actuated Caesar. With a view to a confederacy for these objects, a peace was made among the three generals. At Confluentes,[56] between Perusia and Bononia, they joined hands, and the armies saluted each other. After no good precedent,[57] a Triumvirate was established; and the state being subjugated by force of arms, the proscription, first introduced by Sylla, was revived. Its fury embraced no fewer than a hundred and forty senators. The deaths of many, who fled into all parts of the world, were shocking, cruel, and mournful; such, indeed, as no one can sufficiently lament. Antony proscribed Lucius Caesar, his own uncle; Lepidus, Lucius Paulus, his own brother. It was now a common practice to expose the heads of such as had been killed, on the Rostra at Rome; but, though such was the case, the city could not refrain from tears, when the head of Cicero, severed from his body, was seen on that very Rostra which he had made his own; nor was there a less concourse to see him there than there had formerly been to hear him. These atrocities proceeded from the lists of Antony and Lepidus. Caesar was content with proscribing the assassins of his father; the deaths of whom, had they been less numerous, might have been thought just.
CHAP. VII. THE WAR RAISED BY CASSIUS AND BRUTUS.
Brutus and Cassius seemed to have cast Caesar, like another king Tarquin, from the sovereignty; but the liberty, which by his assassination they had hoped to restore, they entirely lost. After the murder was committed, they fled from the senate house to the Capitol, being afraid, and not without reason, of Caesar's veterans, who did not want inclination to avenge his death, but had no leader. As it appeared, however, that desolation threatened the commonwealth, vengeance was not then thought proper[58] to be pursued.
But, to escape the eye of the public grief, Brutus and Cassius withdrew into Syria and Macedonia, the very provinces assigned them by the Caesar whom they had slain. Vengeance for Caesar was thus delayed rather than smothered. The government being regulated, therefore, rather as it was possible than as it was requisite, by the Triumviri, and Lepidus being left to guard the city, Caesar, accompanied by Antony, prepared for a war against Cassius and Brutus, who, having collected a vast force, had taken post on the same ground that had been fatal to Cnaeus Pompey. But evident omens of destined calamity were observed on this occasion. Birds, accustomed to feed on dead bodies, flew around the camp as if it were already their own. An Ethiopian meeting the troops, as they were proceeding to the field of battle, was too plainly a dismal sign. Some black phantom, too, appeared to Brutus in the night, when he was meditating, after his custom, with a lamp by his side, and, being asked what it was, replied, "Thy evil Genius." Thus it spoke, and vanished from his eyes while he was wondering at its appearance.
In Caesar's camp the birds and victims gave predictions with equal significance, but all for the better. Nothing, however, was more remarkable, than that Caesar's physician was admonished in a dream, that "Caesar should quit his camp, which was destined to be taken," as afterwards happened. For when the battle had commenced, and both sides had fought for some time with equal spirit, (though the leaders were not present, one of whom sickness, and the other fear and indolence,[59] had detained from the field, yet the invincible fortune, both of the avenger and the avenged, supported the party, the danger being at first equally threatening to either side, as indeed the event of the conflict showed,) the cam of Caesar was taken on the one side, and that of Cassius on the other. But how much more powerful is fortune than conduct, and how true is that which Brutus said when he was dying, that "Virtue existed not in reality, but merely in name!"[60] A mistake settled the victory in this battle. Cassius, at a time when one of his wings was giving way, observing his cavalry, after having surprised Caesar's camp, coming back at full speed, imagined that they were fleeing, and withdrew to a neighbouring hill, where the dust and confusion, with the approach of night, obstructing his view of the action, and a scout, whom he sent for the purpose, being slow in bringing intelligence, he concluded that his party was utterly defeated, and caused one of his followers to strike off his head.
Brutus, having lost his very soul in Cassius, and being resolved to adhere strictly to their compact, (for they had agred that both should survive the battle, or neither,)[61] presented his side to one of his attendants, that he might run him through with his sword.
Who cannot but wonder, that these wisest of men did not use their own hands to despatch themselves? But perhaps this was avoided from principle,[62] that they might not, in releasing their most pure and pious souls, stain their own hands, but, while they used their own judgment, might allow the crime of the execution to be another's.
CHAP. VIII. THE WAR WITH SEXTUS POMPEY.
Though the assassins of Caesar were cut off, the house of Pompey was yet left. One of the young men, his sons, had fallen in Spain; but the other had escaped by flight, and, having collected the relics of the unhappy war, and armed a body of slaves, kept possession of Sicily and Sardinia. He had now also covered the sea with a fleet. But how different was he to his father! The one had suppressed the Cilician pirates; the other carried pirates in his own vessels. This youth was entirely overpowered, in the Strait of Messina, with a vastly superior force;[63] and, had he attempted nothing afterwards, would have carried with him to the grave the reputation of a great commander. But it is the mark of a great genius to hope always. After his defeat he fled, and sailed to Asia, where he was destined to fall into the hands and fetters of enemies, and, what is most intolerable to the brave, to die by the sentence of his foes under the axe of the executioner. There never was a more wretched flight since that of Xerxes. For he who, a short time before, was master of three hundred and fifty ships, fled with only six or seven, putting out the light of his own vessel, casting his rings into the sea,[64] and looking anxiously behind him, yet not afraid that he should perish.[65]
CHAP. IX. THE PARTHIAN WAR, UNDER VENTIDIUS.
Although Caesar, by defeating Cassius and Brutus, had disabled their party, and, by cutting off Pompey, had extirpated its very name, yet he could not succeed in establishing peace as long as that rock, knot, and obstacle[66] to the public tranquillity, Antony, remained alive. He himself, indeed, by reason of his vices, was not wanting to his own destruction; but by indulging, from ambition and luxury, in every irregular course, he first freed our enemies, then his own countrymen, and lastly the age in which he lived, from the dread of him.
The Parthians, on the overthrow of Crassus, had assumed greater courage, and had heard with joy of the civil discords among the Romans. As soon, therefore, as an opportunity showed itself, they did not hesitate to rise in arms, especially as Labienus earnestly incited them, who, having been sent thither by Brutus and Cassius, such is the madness of civil discord, had solicited the enemies of Rome to assist them. The Parthians, under the conduct of Pacorus, a youth of the royal family, expelled the garrisons of Antony. Saxa, Antony's lieutenant-general, owed it to his sword that he did not fall into their hands. At length, Syria being taken from us, the evil extended itself more widely, as the enemy, under pretence of aiding others, were conquering for themselves, and would have continue to conquer, had not Ventidius, also a lieutenant-general of Antony, overthrown, with incredible good fortune, not only the forces of Labienus, but Pacorus himself, and all the Parthian cavalry, along the whole plain betwen the Orontes and Euphrates. The slain amounted to more than twenty thousand.[67] Nor was this effected without stratagem on the part of the general, who, pretending fear, suffered the enemy to come so close to our camp, that, by depriving them of room for discharging their arrows, he rendered them useless. The prince fell fighting with great bravery; and his head being carried about through the cities which had revolted, Syria was soon recovered without further war. Thus by the slaughter of Pacorus we made compensation for the overthrow of Crassus.
CHAP. X. THE WAR OF ANTONY WITH THE PARTHIANS.
After the Parthians and Romans had made trial of one another, and Crassus and Pacorus had given proof of their mutual strength, their former friendship was renewed with expressions of equal regard on either side, and a treaty with the king concluded by Antony himself. But such was the excessive vanity of the man, that being desirous, from a love of distinction, to have Araxes and Euphrates read under his statues, he suddenly quitted Syria, and made an inroad on those very Parthians, and that without any cause or reason, or even pretended proclamation of war, as if it were among a general's accomplishments to surprise people by stealth. The Parthians, who, besides having confidence in their arms, are crafty and subtle, pretended to be alarmed, and to retreat across the plains. Antony, as if already victorious, instantly pursued, when suddenly a body of the enemy, not very numerous, rushed suddenly forth, like a storm of rain, upon the Romans, who, as it was evening, were tired with the day's march. Discharging their arrows from all sides, they overwhelmed two legions. But this was nothing in comparison with the destruction that would have met them on the following day, had not the mercy of the gods interposed. One of the Romans who had survived the overthrow of Crassus, rode up to the camp in a Parthian dress, and having saluted the soldiers in Latin, and thus gained credit with them, told them of the danger which threatened them: saying, that "the king would soon come up with all his forces; that they ought therefore to retreat, and take shelter in the mountains; and that possibly, even if they did so, enemies would not be wanting." In consequence, a smaller number of enemies overtook them than had been intended. Overtake them, however, they did; and the rest of the army would have been destroyed, had not the soldiers, while the arrows were falling on them like hail, fortunately sunk down, as if they had been taught, upon their knees, holding up their shields above their heads, and making it appear as if they were killed. The Parthians then refrained from shooting. When the Romsn afterwards rose up, the proceeding appeared so like a miracle, that one of the barbarians exclaimed, "Go, and fare ye well, Romans; fame deservedly speaks of you as the conquerors of nations, since you have escaped death from the arrows of the Parthians." After this, there was no less endured from want of water, than at the hands of the enemy. The country, in the first place, was deadly from its drought; the river, too, with its brackish and bitter water,[68] was more deadly to some; and besides, even good water was pernicious to many, being drunk greedily when they were in a weak condition. Subsequently the heat of Armenia, the snows of Cappadocia, and the sudden change of climate from one to the other, was as destructive as a pestilence. Scarce the third part, therefore, of sixteen legions being left, and his silver being everywhere cut up with hatchets,[69] the excellent general, begging death, from time to time, at the hands of a gladiator of his, escaped at last into Syria, where, by some unaccountable perversion of mind, he grew considerably more presuming than before, as if he had conquered because he had escaped.
CHAP. XI. THE WAR WITH ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
The madness of Antony, which could not be allayed by ambition, was at last terminated by luxury and licentiousness. After his expedition against the Parthians, while he was disgusted with war and lived at ease, he fell in love with Cleopatra, and, as if his affairs were quite prosperous, enjoyed himself in the queen's embraces.
The Egyptian woman demanded of the drunken general, as the price of her favours, nothing less than the Roman empire. This Antony promised her; as though the Romans had been easier to conquer than the Parthians. He therefore aspired to sovereignty, and not indeed covertly, but forgetting his country, name, toga, and fasces, and degenerating wholly, in thought, feeling, and dress, into a monster.[70] In his hand there was a golden sceptre; a scymitar by his side; his robe was of purple, clasped with enormous jewels; and he wore a diadem, that he might dally with the queen as a king.
At the first report of his new proceedings, Caesar had crossed the sea from Brundusium to meet the approaching war. Having pitched his camp in Epirus, he beset the island of Leucas, Mount Leucate, and the horns of the Ambracian Gulf, with a powerful fleet. We had more than four hundred vessels, the enemy about two hundred, but their bulk made up for their inferiority in number; for, having from six banks of oars to nine, and being mounted with towers and high decks, they moved along like castles and cities, while the sea groaned and the winds were fatigued. Yet their magnitude was their destruction. Caesar's vessels rose from three banks of oars to not more than six, and being therefore ready for all that necessity required, whether for charging, retreating, or wheeling around, they attacked, several at once, each of those heavy vessels, too unwieldy for any kind of contest, as well with missile weapons, as with their beaks, and firebrands hurled into them, and dispersed them at their pleasure. Nor was the greatness of the enemy's force shown by anything so much as by what occurred after the victory. The vast fleet, being shattered in the engagement, spread the spoils of the Arabians and Sabaeans, and a thousand other nations of Asia, over the whole face of the deep. The waves, driven onward by the winds, were continually throwing up purple and gold on the shore. The queen, commencing the flight, made off into the open sea with her gilded vessel and sails of purple. Antony immediately followed.
But Caesar pursued hard on their track. Neither their preparations, therefore, for flight into the Ocean,[71] nor the securing of the two horns of Egypt, Paraetonium and Pelusium, with garrisons, were of the least profit to them. They were almost caught by Caesar's own hand. Antony was the first to use his sword against himself. The queen, falling at the feet of Caesar, tempted his eyes in vain; for her charms were too weak to overcome the prince's continence. Her suit was not for life, which was offered her, but for a portion of the kingdom. Despairing of obtaining this from Caesar, and seeing that she was reserved for his triumph, she took advantage of the negligence of her guard, and withdrew herself into a mausoleum, a name which they give to the sepulchres of their kings.[72] Having there put on her best apparel, as she used to be dressed, she placed herself by her dear Antony in a coffin[73] filled with rich perfumes, and, applying serpents to her veins, died a death resembling sleep.
CHAP. XII. THE WARS WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
This was the termination of the civil wars. Those which followed were with foreign nations, and started up in various parts of the world while the empire was distracted with its own troubles. Peace was new; and the swelling and proud necks of the nations had not yet accumstomed to the curb of bondage, recoiled from the yoke that had been but recently imposed upon them. The part of the world lying to the north, peopled by the Norici, Illyrians, Pannonians, Dalmatians, Mysians, Thracians, Dacians, Sarmatians, and Germans, was in general the most violent.
The Alps and their snows, to which they thought that war could not reach, gave confidence to the Norici; but Caesar, with the aid of his step-son, Claudius Drusus, subjugated all the people of those regions, the Brenni, Senones, and Vindelici. How savage these nations were,[74] their women plainly proved, for, when weapons failed, they threw their very infants, after having dashed them on the ground, in the faces of the soldiers.
The Illyrians lie at the foot of the Alps, and guard their deep valleys, which are a sort of barriers[75] of defence to them, surrounded by precipitous torrents. Against this people Caesar himself underttok an expedition, and ordered bridges to be constructed in order to reach them. Here the waters and the enemy[76] throwing his men into some confusion, he snatched a shield from a soldier hesitating to mount a bridge, and was the first to march across; and when the army had followed, and the Illyrins, from their numbers, had broken down the bridge, he, wounded in his hands and legs, and appearing more comely in blood and more majestic in danger,[77] did great execution on the enemy's rear.
The Pannonians were defended by two forests, as well as by three rivers, the Drave, the Save, and the Ister. After laying waste the lands of their neighbours, they had withdrawn themselves within the banks of the streams. To reduce them, he despatched Vibius, and they were cut to pieces along both the rivers.</ref>Along both the rivers] In utrisque fluminibus. Three rivers are mentioned above, tribus fluviis, Dravo, Savo, Histroque. But Histro is not found in all the manuscripts, and Salmasius conjectures satis acribus fluviis, Dravo Savoque.</ref> The arms of the conquered were not burnt, according to the usage of war, but were gathered up, and thrown into the rivers, that the news of the victory might thus be conveyed to those who still held out.
The Dalmatians live for the most part in woods, whence they boldly sally out to commit robberies. This people Marcius had before, as it were, deprived of a head, by burning their city Delminium. Afterwards Asinius Pollio, he that was the second orator in Rome,[78] deprived them of their flocks, arms, and lands. But Augustus committed the final subjugation of them to Vibius, who forced the savages to dig the earth, and collect the gold from its veins, for which this nation, naturally the most covetous of all people, seeks with care and industry, so that they appear to hoard it for their own purposes.
To describe how cruel and inhuman the Mysians are, and how much the most barbarous of all barbarians, would be a horrid task. One of their leaders, calling for silence in front of the army, exclaimed, "Who are you?" The answer retuirned was, "The Romans, lords of all nations." "So you may be," they retorted, "if you conquer us." Marcus Crassus took their words for an omen. They, having straightway offered up a horse before their lines, made a vow that "they would sacrifice, and eat, the bowels of the Roman generals that they should kill." I could suppose that the gods heard them, for they could not endure even the sound of our trumpets. Domitius, a centurion, a man of stolidity sufficiently barbarous, yet effective against men like himself, struck the savages with no small terror, by mounting a pan of coals upon his helmet, and shedding from his head, which appeared on fire, a flame excited by the motion of his body.
Before these the people of Thrace[79] had revolted. These barbarians had been accustomed to the military standards, discipline, and arms of the Romans. But being subdued by Piso, they showed their violent spirit even in captivity, attempting to bite their chains, and thus punishing their own fierceness.
The Dacians live among the mountains. But, whenever the Danube became passable by being frozen, they were accustomed, at the command of Cotiso their king, to make descents, and lay waste the neighbouring country. This people, so difficult of approach, Caesar Augustus determined to drive back. Having despatched Lentulus for this perpose, he repulsed them beyond the further bank, and built garrisons on this side of the river. The Dacians were not, therefore, conquered, but repelled, and left for a future opportunity.
The Sarmatians occupy wide plains, in which they ride about; and it was though sufficient to prevent them, by the expertions of the same Lentulus, from crossing the Danube. They have nothing on the face of their territory but snows and a few woods, and such savages are they, that they known not what peace is.
I wish he had not thought it of so much importance to conquer Germany. The dishonour with which it was lost was greater than the glory with which it was gained. But because he knew that Caesar, his father, had twice made bridges over the Rhine to prosecute the war against the country, he was desirous, in honour of him, to make it a province, and it would have been made so effectually, if the barbarians could have endured our vices as well as our government. Drusus,[80] being sent to the country, first subdued the Usipetes, and then overran the districts of the Tenctheri and Catti. Of the remarkable spoils of the Marcomanni he raised a high mound, by way of a trophy. Next he attacked, at the same time, the three powerful tribes of the Cherusci, Suevi, and Sicambri, who had commenced the war by burning twenty of our centurions, regarding this proceeding as a bond of union, and entertaining such confident hopes of victory, that they divided the spoil by agreement beforehand. The Cherusci chose the horses, the Suevi the gold and silver, and the Sicambri the captives. But all happened contrary to their expectations; for Drusus, proving conqueror, divided their horses, cattle, gold chains, and themselves, as spoil, and sold them. For the defence of the provinces, too, he fixed garrisons, and bodies of guards, along the Meuse, the Elbe, and the Weser. On the banks of the Rhine he raised more than fifty fortresses. He built bridges at Bonn and Gesoriacum,[81] and secured them with ships. He opened a way through the Hercynian forest, which, till that time, had been unpenetrated and unattempted. At length such peace was made throughout Germany, that the inhabitants seemed changed, the ground different from what it was, and the air milder and softer than it was wont to be. And when that brave young man died there, the senate gave him a surname from the province, (an honour which they had never bestowed on any other general,) not from flattery, but in testimony of his merit.
But it is more difficult to retain[82] provinces than to acquire them. They are obtained by force, but secured by justice. Our exultation was accordingly but short. The Germans had been defeated rather than subdued. Under the rule of Drusus they respected our manners rather than our arms. But when Drusus was dead, they began to detest the licentiousness and pride, no less than the cruelty, of Quintilius Varus. He ventured to call an assembly, and administered justice in his camp, as if he could restrain the violence of barbarians by the rods of a lictor and voice of a crier. But the Germans, who had long regretted that their swords were covered with rust, and their horses idle, proceeded, as soon as they saw the toga, and felt laws more cruel than arms, to go to war under the conduct of Arminius, while Varus, meantime, was so well assured of peace, that he was not the least alarmed, even by a revious notice, and subsequent discover of the plot, made by Segestes, one of the enemy's chieftains. Having, therefore, risen upon him unawares, and fearing nothing of the kind, while he, with a strange want of precaution, was actually summoning them to his tribunal, they assailed him on every side, seized his camp, and cut off three legions. Varus met his overthrow with the same fortune and spirit with which Paulus met the day of Cannae. Never was slaughter more bloody than that which was made of the Romans among the marshes and woods; never were insults more intolerable than those of the barbarians, especially such as they inflicted on the pleaders of causes. Of some they tore out the eyes, of others they cut off the hands. Of one the mouth was sewed up, after his tongue had been cut out, which one of the savages holding in his hand, cried, "At last, viper, cease to hiss." The body of the consul himself, which the affection of the soldiers had buried, was dug out of the ground. To this day the barbarians keep possession of the standards and two eagles,[83] the third, the standard-bearer, before it fell into the hands of the enemy, wrenched off, and keeping it hid within the folds of his belt, concealed himself in the blood-stained marsh. In consequence of this massacre, it happened that the empire, which had not stopped on the shore of the Ocean, found its course checked on the banks of the Rhine.
Such were the occurrences in the north. In the south there were rather disturbances than wars. Augustus quelled the Musulanians and Getulians, who border on the Syrtes, by the agency of Cossus, who had thence the surname of Getulicus. But his successes extended further. He assigned the Marmardiae and Garamantes to Curinius to subdue, who might have returned with the surname of Marmaricus, had he not been too modest in setting a value on his victory.
There was more trouble with the Armenians in the east, whither Augustus sent one of the Caesars his grandsons.[84] Both of them were short-lived, but only one of them died without glory. Lucius was carried off by disease at Marseilles, Caius in Syria by a wound, whilsy he was engaged in recovering Armenia, which had revolted to the Parthians. Pompey, after the defeat of king Tigranes, had accustomed the Armenians to such a degree of bondage as to receive rulers from us. The exercise of this right, after having been interrupted, was, by Caius Drusus, recovered in a slight struggle, which, however, was not without bloodshed. Domnes, whom the king had made governor of Artaxata, pretending that he would betray the place, struck Drusus as he was intent on perusing a scroll, which the assasin had just presented to him as containing an account of the treasures. He was hurt,[85] but recovered of the wound for a time. But Domnes, pursued on all sides by the incensed army, made some atonement to Caesar while he still survived, not only by his sword, but a burning pyre, on which, when wounded, he cast himself.
In the west, almost all Spain was subdued, except that part which the Hither Ocean[86] washes, and which lies close upon the rocks at the extremity of the Pyrenees. Here two very powerful nations, the Catabrians and Asturians, lay exempt from the dominion of the Romans. The spirit of the Cantabrians was the more mischievous, more haughty, and more obstinate in raising war; for not content with defending their liberty, they also attempted to domineer over their neighbours, and harassed, with frequent inroads, the Vaccaei, the Curgonii, and the Autrigonae.
Against this people, therefore, as they were said to be pursuing violent measures, an expedition was not committed by Augustus to another, but undertaken by himself. He advanced to Segisama, where he pitched his camp, and then, dividing his army, he inclosed by degrees[87] the whole of Campania, and caught the savage people, like wild beasts, as with a circle of nets. Nor were they spared on the side of the Ocean, where theur rear was vigorously assailed by a fleet. His first battle against the Cantabrians was under the walls of Vellica.[88] Hence they fled to the lofty mountain Vinnius, which they thought the waters of the Ocean would ascend sooner than the arms of the Romans. In the third place, the town of Aracillum made violent resistance; but it was at last taken. At the siege of the mountain Medullus, (which he had surrounded with a trench of fifteen miles in length,) when the Romans pressed forward on every side, and the barbarians saw themselves reduced to extremity, they eagerly hastened their own deaths at a banquet, with fire, sword, and a kind of poison, which is there commonly extracted from yew-trees; and thus the greater part escaped the captivity which threatened them. Of this success, obtained by his lieutenant-generals Antistius, Furnius, and Agrippa, Caesar received the news while wintering on the sea-coast at Tarraco. He himself, arriving at the place, brought some of the inhabitants down from the mountains, bound others by taking hostages of them, and sold others, by right of war, for slaves. The achievement appeared to the senate worthy of the laurel and triumphal chariot, but Caesar was now so great that he could despise chariots.
The Asturians, at the same time, had come down in a vast body from their mountains; nor had they undertaken an enterprise rashly, like barbarians, but, having pitched their camp at the river Astura, and divided their forces into three parts, they prepared to attack three camps of the Romans at once. With such brave enemies, coming upon us so suddenly and in such order, there would have been a doubtful and desperate combat, (and would that I could think the loss on both sides would have been equal!) had not the Trigaecini betrayed them. Carisius, forewarned by the latter people, and coming up with his army, frustrated the enemy's designs, though not even thus without bloodshed. Lancia, a strong city, received the survivors of the routed army. Here there was so fierce an encounter, that firebrands were called for to burn the city after it was taken, when the general with difficulty prevailed with the troops to spare it, "that it might be a monument of the Roman victory as it stood, rather than burnt."
This was the termination of the campaigns of Augustus, as well as the rebellion in Spain. The fidelity of the Spaniards towards us was afterwards unshaken, and peaced remained uninterrupted; a consequence resulting as well from their own disposition, which was now more inclined to tranquillity, as from the managment of Caesar, who, dreading their confidence in the mountains where they sheltered themselves, ordered them to occupy and inhabit the part in which his camp had been, and which was level ground. This regulation was noticed as one of great prudence. The country round about contains gold, and yields vermillion, chrysocolla, and other pigments.[89] He accordingly ordered the soil to be worked. Thus the Asturians became acquainted with their treasures hid in the earth, but searching for them for others.
All nations in the west and south being subdued, and all to the north between the Rhine and Danube, as well as all to the east between the Cyrus and Euphrates, the other countries also, which had not fallen under the authority of Rome, yet grew sensible of her grandeur, and reverenced a people who had conquered so many nations. The Scythians and Sarmatians sent ambassadors to us, desiring our friendship. The Seres, too, and the Indians who live under the very sun, coming with jewels and pearls, and bringing also elephants among their presents, thought they proved their respect to Augustus by nothing so much as the length of their journey, which they had taken four years to complete. The complexion of the men[90] showed that they came from another climate. The Parthians, also, as if they repented of their victory, brought back, of their own accord, the standards which they had taken on the overthrow of Crassus.
Thus there was everywhere, throughout the whole world, uniform and uninterrupted[91] peace or agreement;[92] and Caesar Augustus, in the seven hundredth year from the foundation of the city, ventured to shut the temple of double-faced Janus, which had been shut twice before, in the reign of Numa, and when Carthage was first conquered. Afterwards, applying his thoughts to secure transquillity, he kept in order, by many strict and severe laws, an age which was prone to every vice, and plunging fast into luxury. For these great achievements, he was styled Perpetual Dictator, and Father of his Country. It was debated, too, in the senate, whether, as he had established the empire, he should not also be called Romulus; but the name of Augustus was thought more sacred and venerable, in order that, while he still lived on earth, he might in name and title be ranked among the gods.
Footnotes[edit]
↑ Ch. XIII. By judicial privileges] Judiciorum regno. The law respecting the choice of judices was several times altered. At first they were chosen only from the senators; afterwards, by a law of Caius Gracchus, only from the equites; next, by a law of Caepio, from both orders; and various changes succeeded. See Adam's Rom. Antiq., p. 236, 8vo. ed.
↑ Caused peculation with regard to taxes] Vectigalia supprimebat. "It was easy for the equites, (many of whom were farmers of the revenues,) when they were granted by the law of Gracchus the privilege of being judices, to favour those of their own class on trials, and thus to allow much malappropriation of the public money." Stadius. "Supressa vectigalia are intercepta et in privatos usus conversa. 'Supprimere pecuniam' for to convert to one's own use occurs in Cic. pro Cluent., c. 25, 36." Duker.
↑ Ch. XIV. Mancinus's surrender] Mancinianae deditionis. See ii., 18.
↑ A people who had conquered, &c.] The same words occur in the preceding chapter. Probably, as Duker observes, they ought to be omitted in one of the passages.
↑ Ch. XVI. His competitor] The competitor of Apueleius. Valerius Maximus, ix., 7, 3, says that he was killed by the people, but calls him Aulus Numius. The manuscripts of Florus vary as to the name.
↑ Ch. XVII. Extraordinary privileges] The judices being now elected from the equites. See note on c. 13.
↑ Intercepting the public revenues] Interceptis vectigalibus. See note on c. 13.
↑ Metellus] See c. 16.
↑ Rutilius] He had held the consulship, and was a man of high character, but was brought to trial for extortion, and condemned by a factio of the equitea Stadius.
↑ Ch. XVIII. With great justice] Justissime. "This does not seem to be consistent with what is said above, that the allies excited an insurrection with disgrace to themselves (flagitio). Unless Florus means that though the demands of the allies were just, yet they ought to have borne patiently with the refusal of them on the part of Rome, which they were to regard as their mother-city, just as children bear with hard treatment from their parents." Duker.
↑ Their whole senate and consuls the Umbrians] Umbros totus senatus et consules. Lipsius, Freinshemius, Faber, Perizonius, Graevius, and Duker, are unanimous in suspecting this passage of being corrupt. The name of a leader seems to be wanting. Perizonius thinks that we should read Popedius Marsos et Latinos; Afranius Umbros; Egnatius Samnium; Lucaniamque Telesinus. "Egnatrius was an eminent general of the enemy, whom Livy, Epit., lib. lxxv. calls nobilissimum ducem, and whom it is not likely that Florus would have omitted to mentioned." Duker.
↑ Ch. XIX. To have been dragged home] Retrahi. Many editions have distrahi.
↑ Ch. XX. Without sparing themselves] Sine missione. "That is, even to death. Missio was leave to withdraw from the battle, which was sometimes granted to conquered gladiators; but when it was determied that they should fight till one of them was killed, the struggle was said to be sine missione. Freinshemius.
↑ Ch. XXI. But even Marius and Sylla] Quum vero—Marius et Sylla. All the commentators see that this passge stands in need of some correction. Freinshemius conjectures jam vero. Lipsius and Madame Dacier, with less felicity tum vero.
↑ Under three constellations] Tribus—sideribus. See note on ii., 18.
↑ The tribune who was present] Sulpicius, apparently.
↑ At enmity with gods and men] Dis hominibusque infestus. Desperate, concious that both gods and men were already enraged at him, and not caring how much further he provoked them.
↑ The Caesars] Caius and Lucius, two brothers.
↑ He did not stretch out that fatal hand, &c.] Quia fatalem illam scilicet manum non porrexerat salutanti. Ancharius apprached to salute Marius, but Marius did not hold out his hand to him; the followers of Marius, therefore, despatched him, according to directions which they had previously received.
↑ Villa Publica] See the pseudo-Sallust's Second Epistle to Caesar, c. 5.
↑ Like wild beasts] Ritu ferarum. As beasts would be torn.
↑ Enemies condemned, &c.] The concluding sentence of this chapter is nearly unintelligible. It stands thus in Duker's edition: Nam Sulmonem, vetus oppidum, socium atque amicum (facinus indignum!) nondum expugnatusm, it obsides jure belli, et modo morte damnati duci jubentur: sic damnatam civitatem iussit Sulla deleri. For obsides Gronovius proposed to Graevius to read hostes, which succeeding critics have approved. Modo no one has attempted to explain, except Wopkens, (Lect. Tullian, 5, transcribed by Duker,) who says tht it means nulla quaestione adhibita, caeco impetu, or, as we should say, "off-hand." I have given to the passage, in the translation, the sense in which I must suppose that Florus intended; omitting the word damnatam.
↑ Ch. XXII. Being driven over the Ocean] Missusque in Oceanum. Missus, as the critics observe, can hardly be right. Lipsius conjectures victus, Perizonius fusus.
↑ Domitius and Thorius] Leiutenant-generals of Metellus: the brothers Herculeii, on the side of Sertorius, are mentioned by Frontin., i., 5, 8, Livy, Epit., xc., Eutrop., vi., 1, and other authors.
↑ Roman generals] Sertorius and his opponents. Sertorius was by birth a Sabine.
↑ Ch. XXIII. But how violent was it!] In all the editions the passage stands, Sed quantum lateque fax illius motus ab ipso Syllae rogo exarsit! Quantum lateque is mere nonsense, as all the commentators allow, except Perizonius, who would name it equivalent to quam late, but, as Duker remarks, he should have shown that other writers so express themselves. N. Heinsius conjectures quantum quamque late; Duker, quam late; Is. Vossius, quam longa lateque. I have not attempted any close adherence to the text. Madame Dacier was inclined to expunge both quantum and lateque.
↑ Ch. I. To destroy the city by fire] Distringere incendiis urbem. So as distringendam libertatem, Sen. Benef., vi., 34, where Lipsius would read destringendam.
↑ Human blood] See Sall., Cat., c.22.
↑ Openly and expressly declaring] Seque palam professo incendium, &c. The passage is evidently corrupt. Madame Dacier would strike out professo; Graevius would eject palam, and read ex professo, adverbially. Gronovius would read seque palam professo, &c., which Vossius, Rupertus, and apparently Duker, approve, and which seems to be the only reasonable was of correcting the passage.
↑ Tarcondimotus] A prince of Cilicia; Cotys, a king of Thrace.
↑ At the diminution of his triumph over Crete] Ob imminutum Cretae triumphum. "Not complaining without reason, for the greatest ornament of his triumph, the captive leaders, had been kept back by Pompey." Vell. Pat., ii., 40. Dion. Cass., lib. xxxvi.
↑ Three vast armies] Tres maximos exercitus. These words are without a verb in the original. "Some verb," says Graevius, "such as habuere, must have been lost out of the text; or the three words must have been an interpolation."
↑ In opposition to the effeminacy of its character] Non pro mollitie nominis. "Not in accordance with report, which represented all the Greeks, not excepting those of Marseilles at that period, as unwarlike and spiritless; for that the people of that city had then degenerated from their former reputation for valour, sjhown by Bos on Cic., Ep. Att., x., 12." Duker.
↑ Curictian shore] Curictio litore. "From Curicta, a town at the entrance of the Adriatic, called by Ptolemy ??????ta." Salmasius. The copies vary greatly; some have Corcyraeo; others Cretico.
↑ A thousand men] Not in one boat; though it would seem to be so from the text.
↑ A hundred and twenty weapons penetrated] Centum atque viginti tela sedere. Some copies have centum atque quadraginta. In Caesar, B. C. iii., 58, it is stated that the number of holes in the shield was a hundred and thirty.
↑ As with one hand] Quasi una manu. "That is, very easily, without effort; no great force being necessary to effect it." Rupertus.
↑ Driven from Syendrae] Pulsis Syedris. "Syedra is mentioned by Ptolemy among the maritime towns of Cilicia; Stephanus calls it a city of Isauris, which is often confounded with Cilicia." Salmasius. Before Salmasius the reading was pulsis (or Pulsus) Hedris, which puzzled all the editors.
↑ Damsel] Puella.
↑ Dislike for the king, &c.] Odium ipsius regis, &c. There seems to be something wanting in the text here, as Freinshemius and Duker observe.
↑ Comes, strikes, and is gone] Venit, percussit, abcessit. He uses the preterperfects for the sake of greater effect, as Pearce imagined that Longinus used the aorists in sect. i., ?f?? d?—t? te p???µata d???? s??pt?? p??ta d?ef???se, ?a? t?? t?? ??t???? ?????a? ??ed???at? d??aµ??, which passage Smith, believing in Pearce, translated, "The sublime—with the rapid force of lightning, has borne down all before it, and shown at one stroke the compacted might of genius." Both should have known better. Minellius aptly compares Vell. Pat., ii., 7: Ego vix crediderim tam mature tantam urbem floruisse, concidisse, resurrexisse. See Sall., Jug., c. 106, coenatos esse.
↑ Had strengthened the obligation, &c.] By exciting them to avenge his death.
↑ Nor were the leaders too brave, &c.] Et duces fortius quam ut fugerent, &c. Thus stands the passage in Duker's edition, and almost all others, though Salmasius long ago substituted nec, and Freinshemius, Madame Dacier, Perizonius and Duker himself, admitted that the sense demanded the alteration.
↑ Funeral dishes] Parentalia fercula. Because Petreius and Juba slew themselves over them.
↑ At the very mouth of the Ocean] In ipso ostio Oceani. Near the straits of Gibraltar. "Not far from Crantia, as Dion., ib. xliii., has it, or Cateia, as Hirtius de Bell. Hispan., c. 32." Freinshemius.
↑ The internal and external seas] Mare et intestinum et externum. The Mediterranean sea, within the strait of Gibraltar, and the Ocean without it.
↑ This was an expression of general feeling] Hic omnium sensus erat. "These words are a contemptible gloss." Freinshemius. "I think otherwise; Florus means that all the soldiers, by this silence, testified what they felt, that they wished an end to be put to civil contention." Graevius. "If this was Florus's meaning, he ought to have expressed it more plainly, by adding or prefixing something to the words." Duker.
↑ Arsinoe—displayed] In ferculus—Arsinoe. Madame Dacier thinks that by Arsinoe Florus means the picture of a city by that name; Duker supposes that he intends the portrait of Arsinoe, the sister of Cleopatra, but observes that he must have erred from not knowing that Arsinoe herself was led in the triumph with other captives, as is told by Dion Cassius, lib. Xliii. Ferculum was a sort of frame or stage on which things were carried in triumphal processions.
↑ For which he had no triumph] He did not triumph on account of those battles, says Freinshemius, because in them he had conquered, not foreigners, but his own countrymen. See iii., 22, fin. "Yet that the representations of the contests at Pharsalus and Thapsus, as well as the portraits of the brave men who fell in them, Scipio, Cato, and Petreius, were carried in triumph, is stated by Appian, Bell. Civ., lib. ii.; * * * * that he triumphed, a fifth time, for his victory over the Pompeys at Munda, is testified both by Dion Cassius, l. xliii., and by Plutarch in his life of Caesar." Duker.
↑ And Faustus Sylla, (he had learned to be afraid of sons-in-law,) &c.] Et Faustum Sullam: dedicerat generos timere: filaimque Pompeii cum patruelibus ex Sulla. Under the term sons-in-law Florus comprehends Pompey and Faustus Sylla. Caesar had learned from Pompey to dread a son-in-law, and he now dreaded Faustus Sylla, who, as florus appears to think, was his grandson-in-law, by having married Pompey's daughter. But on this point Florus, as Graevius remarks, is in error, for Julia, Caesar's daughter, died childless; and Faustus Sylla's marriage with a daughter of Pompey by another wife did not at all connect him with Caesar. To the word patruelibus no critic has professed to give a satisfactory sense; it admits, indeed, of no explanation, for patruelis is a "cousin-german," and to whom can we suppose that Florus called the children of Faustus Sylla "cousin-germans?" I have therefore, instead of it, adopted parvulis, the conjecture of Perizonius, approved both by Graevius and Duker.
↑ Regard was had to posterity] Posteris cavebatur. Lest, if any offspring of Sylla should be left, it might be the means of raising a new war. But Hirtius, De Bell. Afric., c. 95, gives a quite different account of the matter, saying that Caesar "granted the daughter of Pompey, and her children by Faustus Sylla, their lives and all their property."
↑ Ch. III. His father's death] The death of Julius Caesar, his father by adoption.
↑ Was ready to degenerate into a king] Descisit in regem. "An elegant expression, and agreeable to the feelings of the old Romans, to whom the name of king was detestable." Freinshemius.
↑ Ch. IV. Second heir] Secundus hoeres. "Camers says that he has nowhere else read this, but I remember to have read it in Dion. Cass., lib. xliv. The second heir is he who takes the place of the first should the first die before the death of the testator." Vinetus.
↑ Ch. VI. What could Caesar then do, &c.] The word Caesar is wanting in the text, but Graevius shows the necessity of adopting it.
↑ Confluentes] At the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhine, now Coblenz.
↑ After no good precedent] Nullo bono more. "In allusion to the preceding triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus." Duker.
↑ Ch. VII. Vengeance was not then thought proper, &c.] Displicuit ultio. After these words follow cum consulis abolitione decreta, of which, according to the unanimous voice of the commentators, no sense can be made, and which I have consequently omitted.
↑ Fear and indolence] Metus et ignavia. That Antony was thus kept from the field, seems to be a gratuitous assertion on the part of Florus. Plutarch merely observes that "some said Antony was absent from the battle, and did not arive in the field till his men were in pursuit of the enemy." Vit. Ant., c 28. See also Vit. Brut., c. 61. No other authority is adduced on the subject.
↑ Virtue existed—merely in name] This saying of Brutus is wholly inapplicable here. Florus first uses virtus in a military sense, (for conduct or ability,) and then confounds it with virtus in a moral sense.
↑ Both should survive the battle, or neither] Ita enim par superesse bello convenerat. Of these words, from which the critics extract no satisfactory sense, I have borrowed Clarke's translation. Freinshemius seems to offer the best emendation: Ita enim super isto bello convenerat. "Quid sibi velit hic par," says Salmasius, "non video."
↑ From principle] Ex persuasione. "The word persuasio is also applied to the sentiments and principles of the philosophers by Quintilian, xii., 2." Duker. The sentiment at the conclusion of this chapter is, as Salmasus says, sufficiently turgid.
↑ Ch. VIII. With a vastly superior force] Tanta mole. The tanta is evidently corrupt. Tollius conjectures tandem tota mole.
↑ Casting his rings into the sea] Annulis in mare abjectis. What rings are meant, is a point of dispute. Madame Dacier and Duker think that they are the rings Sextus Pompey wore on his fingers, and which he threw away that he might not be known by them. Rupertus supposes that they were the fetters worn by the rowrs who were the slaves of Pompey, (fetters being called rings by Martial, Epig., ii., 29, xi., 38,) and which were thrown away that they might make less noise; a supposition much less probable than the other.
↑ Not afraid that he should perish] Non timens ne periret. "Here I accept the interpretation of Rupertus, who says that Sextus Pompey had hopes of safety from Antony." Duker.
↑ Ch. IX. Knot and obstacle] Nodus et mora. "In imitation of Virgil, Aen., x., 428: Pugnae nodumque moramque. Freinshemius.
↑ More than twenty thousand] Viginti amplius millium fuit. "The author is obscure," as Duker remarks, "from excess of brevity," for he leaves it uncertain whether the slaughter was of the cavalry or of the whole army. I have followed the interpretation of Faber.
↑ Ch. X. With its brackish and bitter water] Salinacidis, sc. aquis, according to Salmasius, whom Graevius and Duker follow. A word compounded of salinus (for salsus) and acidus. Others write the word salmacidus, as in Plin. H. N., xxxi., 8, 22; but Salmasius's method appears the better.
↑ And his silver being everywhere cut up with hatchets] Quum argentum ejus passim dolabris concideretur. Thuis was done, according to Plutarch, by Antony's own soldiers, during a riot. "Those who were known to be possessed of gold or silver were slain and plundered, and the money conveyed in the baggage was carried off. Last of all his [Antony's] own baggage was seized, and the richest bowls and tables were cut asunder and divided among the pillagers." Life of Antony, c. 64. Langhorne's Translation.
↑ Into a monster] In illud monstrum. That is, into that momster of a king, such as he is afterwards described. See note on desciscit in regem, c. 3.
↑ Preparations—for flight into the Ocean] Praeparata in Oceanum fuga. Florus alludes to the project of Cleopatra, to draw her vessels over the Isthmus of Suez from the Mediterranean into the Red Sea, and to flee to some more remote country. See Plutarch, Vit. Anton., c. 89.
↑ A name which they give to the sepulchres of their kings] Sepulcgra regum sic vocant. Salmasius and Freinshemius would eject these words, as a mere intruded gloss.
↑ In a coffin] In solio. "Solium is here put for the loculus (coffin) in which dead bodies were buried; as in Plin H. N., xxxv., 12; Q. Curt., x., 1, 32." Freinshemius. Also Suet. Ner., c. 50; Solium Porphyretici marmoris.
↑ Ch. XII. How savage these nations were] Quae fuerit callidarum ventium feritas. The word callidarum, with which none of the critics are satisfied, I have omitted. Salmasius conjectures Alpicarum; Nic. Heinsius Validarum.
↑ A sort of barriers] Et quaedam quasi claustra. I read ut with Gruter.
↑ Here the waters and the enemy, &c.] Hic se et aquis et hoste turbantibus. "I cannot see the propriety of the promoun se, and could wish it were absent. * * * But if for se were substituted suos, there would be no obscurity." Duker.
↑ More comely in blood and more majestic in danger] Speciosior sanguine, et ipse periculo augustior.
↑ He that was the second orator in Rome] Hic secundus orator. "I know n ot what these words mean, unless it be that Pollio was second to Cicero. I would rather read facundus; * * * but, to say the truth, I am inclined to think the words a mere gloss, which somebody had written in the margin of his copy as his own description of Pollio." Freinshemius. Vinetus, Isaac Vossius, Madame Dacier, Tollins, and Duker, are of the same opinion.
↑ The people of Thrace] Thracum maxime populus. I have omitted maxime, as unintelligible. Madame Dacier and Graevius would read maximus.
↑ Drusus] Step-son of Augustus; the same that is mentioned by Horace, Od., iv., 4.
↑ Gesoriacum] Afterwards called Bononia, whence its modern name Boulogne.
↑ More difficult to retain, &c.] He has the same remark, ii., 17.
↑ To this day—two eagles] Aquilas duas adhuc barbari possident. Freinshemius observes that there were recovered before the time of Florus; one by Stertinus, as is stated in Tacit. Ann., i., 60; and the other by Gabinius, as is told by Dion Cassius, lib. lx. "Lipsius, on Tacit. Ann., ii., 25, expresses a suspicion that Florus copied his account from some Roman historian who wrote before the recovery of the eagles." Duker.
↑ His grandsons] Sons of his daughter Julia and Marcus Agrippa.
↑ Hurt] Strictus. Stringere, used in this way, is generally leviter vulnerare.
↑ Hither Ocean] Citerior Oceanus. What Florus meant by Citerior Oceanus, neither Ryckius, nor Madame Dacier, nor Duker, can settle. The Cantabri and Astures were situate near the end of the Pyrenees furthest from Rome, on the Atlandtic Ocean.
↑ By degrees] In diem. "From day to day." Perizonius, Freinshemius, and Graevius, would read indidem; but this, as Duker, observes, is superfluous, when unde precedes.
↑ Of Vellica] All the editions have Belgicae; but there is no place of this name known in Spain. Vellicae is the conjecture of Stadius, approved by Gruter, Graevius, and Perizonius.
↑ Chrysocolla, and other pigments] Chrysocollae, et aliorum colorum. Crysocolla is generally considered the same with borax. Good, in his notes on Lucretius, vi., 1077, says that is "a mineral sand, found on the shores of the Red Sea, of an elegant green colour, denominated by the nations of modern times tincar or tincal." See Pliny, H. N., xxxiii., 5. Borax is also said to be found in great quantities in [...]hibet.
↑ The complexion of the men, &c.] Et Tamen ipse hominum color, &c. The 'tamen, as Madame Dacier remarks, is worse than useless, giving a ridiculous meaning to the sentence. It is wanting in one of Ryckius's manuscripts, and in some editions. I have omitted it.
↑ Uniform and uninterrupted] Cuncta atque continua. Cuncta is read in all manuscripts and editions, but is, as Graevius observes, unintelligible. I have preferred una, the conjecture of Gronovius. Lipsius had previously suggested juncta.
↑ Peace or agreement] Pax—aut pactio. All people were quiet, as having either, from being conquered, accepted terms of peace, or consenting to abstain, at least for the present, from hostilities. The latter class, as Duker observes, were those of whom Florus speaks a little above; nations who, though not actually subdued by the Romans, were sensible of their supriority, and respected their power.
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Envy. Gluttony. Greed. Lust. Pride. Sloth. Wrath.
Sep. 6, 2017 - by Noel Morris
The many faces of Brecht and Weill’s wandering Anna. Meg Gillentine plays the acting and dancing Anna. Photo illustration: Matt Burkhalter / The Atlanta Opera
DESPITE HIS EUROPEAN BIRTHPLACE, KURT WEILL SAW HIMSELF AS AN AMERICAN COMPOSER TELLING A SATIRIC, AMERICA-SET TALE
The Atlanta Opera performs “The Seven Deadly Sins,” part of its Discoveries series, in a cabaret setting at Le Maison Rouge at Paris on Ponce on Sept. 28-Oct. 6. Details HERE.
KURT WEILL was a refugee when he wrote the score to The Seven Deadly Sins. On March 22, 1933, he had dropped everything and crossed into France with his mistress and a small suitcase.
A month earlier, on Feb. 18, crowds streamed into theaters in the German cities of Leipzig, Magdeburg, and Erfurt to see Der Silbersee, a new show by Weill and playwright Georg Kaiser. Inside and outside the theaters, the SA (paramilitaries) staged raucous protests; they served at the pleasure of the newly appointed chancellor, Adolph Hitler.
“The audience that night knew it was a historic occasion, the end of something,” says Weill biographer Foster Hirsch.
Weill was the son of a prominent cantor at the synagogue in Dessau. His star rose during the short-lived Weimar Republic, a creative pressure cooker of opera, theater, nightclubs, jazz, literature, visual art and a heavy dose of political satire. (American audiences saw a bit of this world in the Broadway musical Cabaret.)
In the Weimar’s twilight years, Weill partnered with leftist author Bertolt Brecht to conjure a popular entertainment that synthesized the sophistication of classical music, the soul of jazz and the wallop of a Marxist rally. Emblematic of their sound was the husky voice of Weill’s wife and muse, Lotte Lenya.
Refugee years
When Weill left for France in March 1933, he was estranged from both Brecht and Lenya (he and Lenya divorced later that year). Weill received a warm welcome, arriving on the heels of acclaimed performances in the French capital.
British arts patron Edward James immediately put him to work on The Seven Deadly Sins, a new ballet for the great Russian choreographer George Balanchine. Only two months passed between their first meeting and the first performance of The Seven Deadly Sins — although those months were not without drama.
Uneasy partners: Kurt Weill (left) and Bertolt Brecht.
Part of Weill’s genius lay in his ability to work within the cracks, whether bridging musical styles or art forms. Not shy about his standing in the cultural universe, the composer negotiated to add to the effort a literary partner, one of “equal stature.” Billing The Seven Deadly Sins as a “ballet chanté” (a “sung ballet”), Weill offered the project to Jean Cocteau, who declined. James then pressured him to mend fences with Brecht.
Weill called Brecht “one of the most repulsive, unpleasant characters on the face of the Earth.” Brecht, also a refugee, scoffed at James’ “bourgeois” project but couldn’t bring himself to say no. He needed the money. So he joined Weill in Paris, giving the work 10 days of his life, then returning to Switzerland. This was Brecht and Weill’s last collaboration. Lenya sang the premiere.
Anna I and Anna II
A scene from “The Seven Deadly Sins” at London’s Royal Ballet in 2009. Photo: Eilliott Franks Photography
The Seven Deadly Sins is a smart, ironic, and compact satire about a small-town girl who travels from city to city for a noble cause: to earn enough money as a dancer to build a home for her family. But this isn’t an allegory about small-town values and big-city vice. This is a drama that rages within the human heart, whatever the circumstance.
By splitting the principal character into two performers — Anna I and Anna II — Weill and Brecht give us a window into the young dancer’s inner dialogue. With each stop on her journey, she struggles with one of the seven sins, but Brecht’s book is far from unambiguous. The characters tend to commit one deadly sin to avoid another.
In the movement labeled “Anger,” Anna I scolds Anna II: “If you take offense at injustice, Mister Big will show he’s offended. If a curse or a blow can enrage you so, your usefulness here is ended.” In other words, Anna I justifies sloth (inaction) to avoid the sin of anger, although one senses that greed is her true mistress.
The story takes place in America. Over seven years, Anna travels from city to city as her family cackles about virtue, always with an eye on the money. The family’s presence is particularly oily, with music that pivots between church chorale and barbershop quartet. Notably, the mother’s voice is sung by the bass.
Brian Clowdus, Serenbe Playhouse artistic director, is directing his first opera. Atlanta Opera’s Rolando Salazar conducts.
W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman prepared the English translation of The Seven Deadly Sins. The original score features a soprano as Anna I, but the publisher offers an arrangement for a “low female voice.” This alternate version favored Lenya (although some argue she was outside her vocal range at the Paris premiere).
In 1935, Weill and Lenya settled in the United States; they remarried the next year and, in 1943, Weill became a U.S. citizen.
In 1947, when a Life magazine article referred to Weill as a “German composer,” he wrote to them: “I have a gentle beef about one of your phrases. Although I was born in Germany, I do not consider myself a ‘German composer.’ The Nazis obviously did not consider me as such either, and I left their country (an arrangement which suited both me and my rulers admirably) in 1933. I am an American citizen, and during my dozen years in this country I have composed exclusively for the American stage.”
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NORTHEAST LEISURE NEWS
Thursday November 15 2018
The Sill launches new exhibition to celebrate local artists
A new exhibition celebrating local artists opens at The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre on Hadrians Wall this Saturday 17 November.
Northumberland National Park Authority has created a special gallery space to showcase artists from across the county who take their inspiration from the landscapes, plants and animals that symbolise the Park.
Titled ‘Inspired by Our Land’, the exhibition features 12 local artists and includes original work, prints, photography and ceramics. Visitors can expect to see traditional landscape paintings alongside contemporary art and stunning photography.
Popular watercolour artist David Holliday, who is based in the Tyne Valley and works from his studio at The Hearth Arts Centre in Horsley, is one of the artists featured. David has an honours degree in Design & Illustration from Sunderland University. For more than 20 years he has been painting works inspired by the North East’s urban, coastal and rural landscapes, iconic heritage sites and wildlife.
Describing the opportunity to exhibit his work at The Sill, David said: “It’s an honour to be involved in the National Park Authority’s first art exhibition. The Sill is an iconic location and I feel proud to have my work feature alongside other hugely talented artists living and working in Northumberland.
“I have been painting landscapes and wildlife throughout the county for many years. Northumberland National Park is a constant source of inspiration; therefore it’s fantastic to be exhibiting my work in the place that helped shape it.”
The majority of artists featured in the exhibition hail from Hexham, Rothbury, Haydon Bridge, Bardon Mill, West Mickley and the Hadrian’s Wall area.
They include oil painter Peter Flanaghan, Cathy Duncan, a specialist in linocut prints, Lindsey Cooper who works in acrylics, photographer David Taylor, printmaker Carol Nunan, acrylic artist Judith Forster, printmaker Carole Thirlaway, mixed media artist Denis McErlane, sculptor Robin Fox, ceramic artist Graham Taylor and photographer Will Nicholls.
Rosie Thomas, Business Development Director at Northumberland National Park Authority, adds: “We are thrilled to host our first art exhibition in the heart of Hadrian’s Wall country and to celebrate our gifted local artists and provide them with a unique opportunity to share their talent with visitors to The Sill.
“Inspired by Our Land represents the unique environment, varied geography and wonderful wildlife of our National Park. It promises to be a fantastic exhibition and I’d encourage anyone with a love for the countryside to come and see it. We have a great variety on display, ranging from oils and watercolours to mixed media, sculpture and photography. With such a wide selection there is undoubtedly something for everyone.”
‘Inspired by Our Land’ is a free public exhibition which runs from Saturday 17 November to February 2019. It is open seven days a week from 10am to 4pm.
Its launch coincides with The Sill Christmas Fair weekend on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 November. Visitors can view the artworks, some will be available to purchase, and enjoy a variety of stalls offering unique gifts from local producers, crafters and traders along with festive food and live music.
The Sill is the UK’s first dedicated National Landscape Discovery Centre and the result of a pioneering partnership between Northumberland National Park Authority, YHA (England and Wales), and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through a £7.8 million grant made possible by National Lottery players.
To find out more about The Sill go to www.thesill.org.uk or to book an event or activity, go to https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk.
"Its an honour to be involved in the National Park Authoritys first art exhibition. "
David Holliday, watercolour artist
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The CALIFA survey: exploring the oxygen abundance in the local universe
Sánchez, Sebastián F. and Sánchez Menguiano, Laura and Marino, Raffaella Anna and Rosales Ortega, F. F. and Pérez, Isabel and Gil de Paz, Armando and Pérez, Enrique and Walcher, C. Jakob and López Cobá, Carlos (2015) The CALIFA survey: exploring the oxygen abundance in the local universe. Galaxies, 3 (4). pp. 164-183. ISSN 2075-4434
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/galaxies3040164
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We present here a review of the latest results on the spatially-resolved analysis of the stellar populations and ionized gas of disk-dominated galaxies based on Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) data. CALIFA is an ongoing integral field spectroscopy (IFS) survey of galaxies in the Local Universe (0.005 < z < 0.03) that has already obtained spectroscopic information up to ∼2.5 r_e with a spatial resolution better than ∼1 kpc for a total number of more than 600 galaxies of different morphological types, covering the color-magnitude diagram up to M_R < −18 mag. With nearly 2000 spectra obtained for each galaxy, CALIFA offers one of the best IFU datasets to study the star formation histories and chemical enrichment of galaxies. In this article, we focus on the main results from the analysis of the oxygen abundances based on the study of ionized gas in H II regions and individual spaxels and their relation to the global properties of galaxies, using an updated/revised dataset with more galaxies and ionized regions. In summary, we have confirmed previous published results indicating that: (1) the M-Z relation does not present a secondary relation to the star formation rate, when the abundance is measured at the effective radius; (2) the oxygen abundance presents a strong correlation with the stellar surface density (∑-Z relation); (3) the oxygen abundance profiles present three well-defined regimes: (i) an overall negative radial gradient between 0.5 and 2 r_e, with a characteristic slope of α_O/H ∼−0.1 dex/r_e; (ii) a universal flattening beyond >2 r_e; and (iii) an inner drop at <0.5 re that depends on mass; (4) the presence of bending in the surface brightness profile of disk galaxies is not clearly related to either the change in the shape of the oxygen abundance profile or the properties of the underlying stellar population. All of these results indicate that disk galaxies present an overall inside-out growth, with chemical enrichment and stellar mass growth tightly correlated and dominated by local processes and limited effects of radial mixing or global outflows. However, clear deviations are shown with respect to this simple scenario, which affect the abundance profiles in both the innermost and outermost regions of galaxies.
© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Sebastián F. Sánchez thanks the support of the Mexican CONACyT Grant 180125, and DGAPA-PAPIIT Grant IA100815. Authors thank to the rest of the CALIFA collaboration members for making possible this study.
Galactic chemical evolution; Star-formation rate; Spiral galaxies; Z-similar-to-3; Gradients; Spectra; Winds; Size; Gems; Disk
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Julius Meme Publications
1 1999 Hospital Autonomy: The Experience Of Kenyatta National Hospital. Int J Health Plann Manage . 1999 Apr-Jun; 14 ( 2 ): 129-53 . PMID: 10538935 [PubMed - Indexed For MEDLINE] Collins D, Njeru G, Meme J, Newbrander W.
Management Sciences for Health, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
An increasing number of countries are exploring the introduction or expansion of autonomous hospitals as one of the numerous health reforms they are introducing to their health system. Hospital autonomy is one of the forms of decentralization that is focused on a specific institution rather than on a political unit. It has gained much interest because it is an attempt to amalgamate the best elements of the public and private sectors in how a hospital is governed, managed and financed. This paper reviews the key elements of the concept of hospital autonomy, the reasons for its expanded use in many countries and a specific example of making a major teaching hospital autonomous in Kenya. A review of the successful experience of Kenyatta National Hospital and its process of introducing autonomy, with regard to governance, operations and management, and finances, lead to several conclusions on replicability. The legal framework is a critical element for successfully structuring the autonomous hospital. Additionally, success is highly dependent on the extent to which there is adequate funding during the process of attaining autonomy due to the length of the transition period needed. Autonomy must be granted within the context of the national health system and national health objectives and be consistent with those aims and their underlying societal values. Finally, as with decentralization, success is dependent upon the preparation done with the systems and management necessary for the proper governance and operation of autonomous hospitals.
2 1994 An International Perspective On Child Day-care Health.Pediatrics. 1994 Dec;94(6 Pt 2):1085-7. Olin P, Tandon BN, Meme JS, Ford-Jones EL, Belsey M, Chang A.
If we are committed to the health and development of children, we need to recognize that the vast majority of the world's women are working women. In Africa, 80% of the women are actively engaged in economic activities outside the home. The "economic miracle" in Southeast Asia was made possible by the nimble fingers of thousands of women working in textile and electronics factories. There is need for pre-day-care advocacy for infants, through promotion of breast feeding and maternity leave. When the mother returns to work, the standard of the International Labor Organization should be applied, namely" ...the care of children while the parents are working cannot be ignored because it forms a focal point on which three main concerns of development policy–work, health, and education–converge." Several principles emerged from the presentations in the international panel: 1. Child-care programs must be community based, using the resources of the families and the community organizations themselves. 2. Programs require the active involvement of the communities, women's groups, and other partners. 3. Programs are modified by innovations created by community organizations, universities, and other groups. 4. Programs require the mobilization of trained young men and women into the field of early childhood education and development. This international panel provided an overall uniting theme, that throughout the world the hope for the survival and better life for children unites parents of every country and every creed. This is one of the most powerful and strongest motivational resources in the world.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
3 1992 Breastfeeding Promotion In Kenya: Changes In Health Worker Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices, 1982-89. J Trop Pediatr . 1992 Oct; 38 ( 5 ): 228-34 . PMID: 1433448 [PubMed - Indexed For MEDLINE] Bradley JE, Meme J.
Ministry of Health, Government of Kenya, Nairobi.
In 1982, a study of health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices with respect to breastfeeding was undertaken in Kenya. A breastfeeding promotion campaign ensued, in which training of health workers was a major component. In 1989, the impact of this campaign was evaluated through a survey examining changes in health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices. The survey showed that considerable improvements in knowledge and substantial improvements in hospital practices have occurred, although none of these could be attributed to any single element of the breastfeeding promotion programme. Particularly undesirable practices which were common in 1982, such as separation of mother and baby, formula feeding and use of bottles have virtually disappeared from Kenyan hospitals. Recommendations regarding future programme directions are made.
4 1990 Meme JS., Institutional Capacity Building For CSD In Kenya. Intern. Child Health. 1:1, 19.
5 1988 Meme J. S. Acute Respiratory Infectios In Kenya. Bulletin Intern. Paed. Assoc. 9: 96, 1988.
Ministry of Health, Government of Kenya, Nairobi. In 1982, a study of health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices with respect to breastfeeding was undertaken in Kenya. A breastfeeding promotion campaign ensued, in which training of health workers was a major component. In 1989, the impact of this campaign was evaluated through a survey examining changes in health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices. The survey showed that considerable improvements in knowledge and substantial improvements in hospital practices have occurred, although none of these could be attributed to any single element of the breastfeeding promotion programme. Particularly undesirable practices which were common in 1982, such as separation of mother and baby, formula feeding and use of bottles have virtually disappeared from Kenyan hospitals. Recommendations regarding future programme directions are made. PMID: 1433448 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6 1988 Opinya G., Kaimenyi JT., Meme JS., Oral Findings In Faconi's Anaemia. J. Peiodontol 59:473, 1988.
A case of fanconi's anemia was referred to the Dental School from the Department of Pediatrics. The patient was a 24-year-old male and a product of a consanguineous marriage. His chief complaint was loose and falling teeth, which has started at the age of 16 years. The first teeth to fall out were the first permanent molars followed by mandibular and maxillary anteriors. General examination showed that the patient was of normal intelligence and small for his age. He had no palmar plantar hyperkeratosis and was not diabetic. A total of 19 teeth remained in the mouth, most of them with grade three mobility. The remaining molars and first maxillary premolars had grade three furcation involvement. Most of the teeth had periodontal pockets more than 10 mm deep. Full mouth intraoral periapical radiographs and orthopantomographic views showed severe horizontal bone loss uncommensurate with the patient's age. In view of the patient's history and severe bone loss at an early age, the diagnosis was juvenile periodontitis associated with Fanconi's anemia.
7 1988 Orinda D.A.O., Braddick CK., Meme JS., Concentration Of Thyroid Hormone In Maternal And Cord Blood From Normal Kenya Population. Ciln. Chem. 34, 23711, 1988.
8 1988 Concentrations Of Thyroid Hormones In Maternal And Cord Blood From A Normal Kenyan Population. Clin Chem . 1988 Nov; 34 ( 11 ): 2371 . No Abstract Available. PMID: 3180436 [PubMed - Indexed For MEDLINE] Orinda DA, Braddick M, Meme J, Achola JO, Achola P.
9 1988 Opinya GN, Kaimenyi JT, Meme JS.Oral Findings In Fanconi's Anemia. A Case Report.J Periodontol. 1988 Jul;59(7):461-3
10 1987 Into Africa. The Telemedicine Links Between Canada, Kenya And Uganda. C.M.A.J. Vol. 136, 398-400, 1987. House M., Koegh E., Hillman D., Bwibo N.O., Meme J. S., Wafula E., Macleods, McCollough N.
11 1987 Meme J.S. Diarrhoea Disease And Oral Rehydration Therapy In Kenya. Bulletin Inter. Paed. Assoc. 8: 223, 1987.
12 1987 Meme J.S. Malaria In Kenya Bulletin Inter. Paed. Assoc. 8: 346, 1987.
13 1987 Meme J. S. Schisosomiasis In Kenya Bulletin Inter. Paed. Assoc. 8: 383, 1987.
14 1987 Meme J.S. Kenya Expanded Programme On Immunization Bulletin Inter. Paed. Assoc. 8: 4:428, 1987.
15 1986 Meme J. S., Hillma D., Hillman E., Macleod S., Bwibo N. O. University Of Nairobi, Department Of Paediatrics: The McGill Legacy Clin. Invest. Med 9: 14 1986.
16 1985 Bryceson A., Chulay J., May H.O., Mugambi J., Were J., Meme J.S., Anabani G. Response Of Leishmaniasis To High Dosage Sodium Stibogluconate And Prolonged Treatment With Pentamidine. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. 79, 705, 1985.
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Pulmonary oedema is a common sign of East Coast fever (ECF, Theileria parva infection) of cattle. A trial was conducted on farms in Uganda to compare a product containing both the antitheilerial compound parvaquone and the diuretic compound frusemide with one containing only parvaquone, in the treatment of ECF. The trial involved 40 clinical cases of ECF, some of them complicated by other infections, in cattle of all ages and on several farms. Confirmed cases were treated with either parvaquone+frusemide (P+F) or parvaquone alone (P). Survival after treatment with P+F was 77% compared with 71% with P. Five of the 10 fatalities were complicated cases. The cure rate for severe but uncomplicated ECF was 89% with P+F and 40% with P. Pulmonary signs were resolved within 24-48 h after treatment with P+F and clinical recovery was noticeably more rapid than with P. The antiparasitic effect of the two treatments was similar. P+F could be particularly useful when reporting, diagnosis or laboratory confirmation of ECF is delayed, because advanced cases are more likely to be encountered under these circumstances.
17 1985 Visceral Leishmaniasis Unresponsive To Antimonial Drugs: Clinical And Immunological Studies. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. 79, 705, 1985. Bryceson A., Chullay J., May H. O., Mugambi J., Were J., Meme J.S. And Anabani G.
18 1982 Brown J.D., Meme JS, Mbithi T. Epidemological Aspect Of Mercury Poisoning In Kenya E. Afr. Med. J. 59: 98, 1982
19 1982 Meme J. S., Njai D., Kyambi, Kungu A. Antral Mucosal Diaphragm. An Obstructing Lesion Of The Stomach. E. Afr. Med. J. 59: 161, 1982.
20 1982 Mercury Poisoning In Kenyan Children. A Further Report On Epidemiological Aspects.1: East Afr Med J. 1982 Feb;59(2):98-106 Brown JD, Meme JS, Mbithi T.
21 1982 Antral Mucosal Diaphragm: An Obstructing Lesion Of The Stomach. East Afr Med J. 1982 Feb;59(2):161-4. Meme JS, Njai DM, Kyambi JM, Kung'u A.
22 1981 Meme J. S. Sickle Cell Disease: The First Ten Years Medicom 3: 31, 1981
23 1981 Mercury Poisoning As A Cause Of Acrodynia In Kenya Children–a Preliminary Report.East Afr Med J. 1981 Sep;58(9):641-9. Meme JS, Brown JD, Kagia J, Dawa BA, Kihia W.
24 1980 Meme J. S., Otieno L.S., Njai D Fanconi Anemia, Chromosome Breakages In A Large African Family. Hereditas 93, 225, 1980
25 1980 Calciferol Induced Hypercalcemia In Renal Osteodystrophy. East Afr Med J. 1980 Oct;57(10):712-5. Meme JS, Njai DN, Otieno LS, Kalya R.
26 1980 Meme JS, Greipenberg U, K
27 1978 Meme J. S. A Prospective Study Of Neonatal Deaths In Nairobi Kenya E. Afr. Med. J. 55: 264, 1978.
28 1978 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: Report Of A Case Presenting With Hypertensive Cerebrovascular Disease. East Afr Med J. 1978 Sep;55(9):442-3. Meme JS, Kimemiah SG, Oduori ML.
29 1977 Meme J. S., Clogg, D.K., Gatei D., Lewis C., Cryptogenic Fibrosing Alvelitis. E. Afr. Med. J. 54: 44, 1977
30 1977 Meme J. S., Hillman D. Infants Of Low Birth Weight Seen At The Kenyatta National Hospital E. Afr. Med. J. 54: 28, 1975
31 1977 Cryptogenic Fibrosing Alveolitis. (Case Report Of A Child). East Afr Med J. 1977 Jan;54(1):43-6. Meme JS, Clogg DK, Gatei D, Lewis C.
32 1977 Infants Of Low Birthweight Seen At The Kenyatta National Hospital. East Afr Med J . 1977 Jan; 54 ( 1 ): 27-30 . No Abstract Available. PMID: 852453 [PubMed - Indexed For MEDLINE] Meme J, Hillman D.
33 1975 Meme J. S., Oduori, M.L., Gripenberg, Fanconi's Aplastic Anaemia, Case Report And Review Of The Literature. E. Afr. Med. J. 54: 44, 1975
34 1971 Meme J. S., Mwangemi, P.M., Manguyu, A.M. Boils And Abscesses Survey At The Outpatient Department Of Kenyatta Hospital, Nairobi. Journal Of Medicine 2: 11, 1971
35 1970 Meme J. S. Carcinoma Of Thyroid Nairobi Journal Of Medince 1: 23, 1970
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An urban neighborhood in Tripoli, north Lebanon, is home to both Syrian refugees and locals - Amelia Rule/CARE International
LONDON/ERBIL, 12 October 2015 (IRIN) - Readying a fundraiser for an Aleppo hospital, a London boutique owner expressed her concern about the Syrian refugees who’ve fled to neighbouring countries: “They’re living in camps over there, aren’t they?”
Not quite. Just ask Ismail Yousif, a 51-year-old native of Hasaka, in northeastern Syria. After fleeing to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2013, he and his family sought shelter in a refugee camp. But there wasn’t space, and sewage now seeps across the floor of his cheap rented quarters.
“Nobody cares whether we starve or die,” he told IRIN.
The image of Syrian refugees in dusty refugee camps is a favourite cliché of politicians and media alike. “[N]early four million Syrians languish in camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan,” an article in The Independent lamented. Politicians too refer to refugees “languishing” “in the camps,” and donors boast about their contribution to running them, even in places where they don't exist.
The reality for the vast majority of Syrian refugees is closer to Yousif’s. According to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, of the four million Syrians who’ve fled their country’s four-year war, well over 3.5 million people are in the cities, towns and villages of Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The Syrian refugee crisis affects those host communities too.
‘Not that different from life in the camps’
A refugee camp in northern Iraq - Photo: Cathy Otten/IRIN
Until recently, the majority of Syrian refugees in Kurdistan lived in urban areas and paid rent. Almost all the humanitarian assistance, however, is focused on the camps.
At the start of this year, the region found itself in dire financial straights. The so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) became Kurdistan’s next-door neighbours and investment stuttered, driving up unemployment. Baghdad also withheld Erbil’s budgetary allocation, a reprimand for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s independent oil exportation, leaving government salaries unpaid for months on end.
There was particular pressure on the low-end housing sector, which was struggling to deal with Iraq’s own IS-triggered internal displacement crisis without having to make room too for refugees from abroad.
Unable to afford housing on their own, many Syrians in Iraq have been pushed from rent to tent. In 2013, there were an estimated 38,500 Syrians living in three camps – one in Kurdistan and two in central Iraq. Now there are some 94,000 in 10 camps. Of all the countries in the region with a significant population of Syrian refugees, Iraq now has the largest proportion living in camps, although that’s still only 38 percent.
When Yousif, his wife Habiba and their three teenage sons first arrived in Kurdistan in February 2013, their first step was to rent a home. A builder by trade, chronic back problems meant Yousif couldn't work, so his sons cut their education short and entered Erbil’s construction industry. When the financial crisis hit at the beginning of 2015, the shopping mall they were helping to build was mothballed and their income disappeared overnight.
Even their smallest revenue source dried up. “My 14-year-old son worked in a car wash for a very tiny wage because he was under the legal age,” Yousif told IRIN. For a 12-hour day, he earned about $7. “He lost his job because the car wash closed, too.”
The family relocated to a nearby refugee camp in April 2015, but it was so overcrowded that after a few weeks of miserable conditions they gave up. Yousif was told no other camp could take them in. They were left with no choice but to find somewhere to rent yet again, even though they couldn’t afford it.
Their current rental property has broken doors and windows. “The bathrooms are very old and the sewage system is not working properly,” said Yousif.
Desperate for shelter, refugees like Yousif often overpay for decrepit buildings. “They’re paying much more than they should be charged for the quality of their homes,” Amelia Rule, a shelter adviser with CARE International, told IRIN. Many end up in overcrowded and unsanitary apartment blocks, garages, or construction sites, with eviction a constant concern.
“I rented this place because it was the cheapest. I am just worried about winter, because it will be very cold,” explained Yousif. Winter temperatures in Kurdistan dip below zero degrees Celsius. “We have electricity five hours a day and the fuel for heating is expensive ($1 per litre). So it’s not that different from life in the camps.”
The obvious distinction is that a camp is free; the rental costs them $400 per month.
In Kurdistan, UNHCR reports that there is “no fund available to support non-camp refugee families.” Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have also seen their rental subsidies drop or disappear, in part because of underfunding. The UN said it needed $4.5 billion to support Syrian refugees in 2015 – it has received only $2.2 billion.
The failure to help refugees like Yousif remain in rented homes is a false economy, some experts argue. “The reason support within communities is so cheap is that we do not need to create and maintain communal services, such as schools and clinics,” explained Tom Corsellis, executive director of Shelter Centre, which provides expertise and help to humanitarian organisations tackling settlement and reconstruction. In camps, humanitarian organisations have to provide all these expensive services.
But, Corsellis added, humanitarian support is lacking to boost some of the communal services that refugees and host communities share, like plumbing and electricity infrastructure.
In Lebanon, the government has not authorised a single formal refugee camp for Syrians – their history with Palestinian refugees makes this a fraught political issue – and 85 percent of refugees there live in rented accommodation and unfinished buildings.
Their contribution to the Lebanese economy in rent alone is an estimated $36 million per month. But according to a report by CARE International, the “strain on Lebanese infrastructure and services is having a destabilising effect.”
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, aid actually aggravated tensions between poor Lebanese residents and Syrians. “Syrian refugees who received cash for rent at relatively high rates were the most highly desired tenants,” said the report, “with landlords often selecting these families over potential Lebanese tenants.”
“The challenge is that a lot of funding is directed towards Syrian refugees only, making it difficult to programme for a whole neighbourhood that is affected,” said CARE’s Rule.
With cash grants to refugees unsustainable, agencies like CARE and the Norwegian Refugee Council are prioritising urban improvement. Updating plumbing, fixing windows and doors, and renovating run-down streets can persuade landlords to offer free or reduced cost accommodation to refugees. Crucially, this investment in infrastructure benefits Lebanese communities too.
Rule acknowledges that this tactic might raise some eyebrows. “We’re bridging into the development realm, so there is a need for more flexibility in the funding.” But if European donors want to see the refugee crisis contained in the Middle East, they may have to look outside camps and invest in the infrastructure of host countries.
Returning to war?
Today, cuts to aid are even pushing people back towards the war in Syria.
“We’ve seen a major increase in the number of Syrian refugees returning to Syria,” Cate Osborn, a protection and advocacy adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council in Jordan, told IRIN. It hit a peak of 340 daily returnees in September; almost 4,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan headed back during August.
“Those people are telling NRC staff that the inability to meet basic needs are significant [factors],” explained Osborn, citing cuts from the World Food Programme in particular: 229,000 urban refugees lost their food aid in September, leaving less money for rent. “They see that there are no longer any sustainable options to stay in Jordan,” Osborn added.
This phenomenon extends outside Jordan. A reported 94,000 Syrian refugees left Turkey for Syria in the past year. Some return to sell assets and property, raising cash for a journey to Europe. Yousif’s house in Hasaka was once valued at $40,000. But last month he sold it for only $6,000, just enough to smuggle his eldest son into Germany.
Yousif has no plans to return to Syria, calling it a battlefield in the “third world war.” Having considered his options, poor plumbing might be as goods as it gets.
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Posted by Ian Anderson
(First published in fRoots 201, March 2000.) Ever since World Music emerged as a useful marketing concept back in 1987, conspiracy theorists have wasted energies on criticising it. ‘Enough!’, says Ian Anderson…
In the New York Times last October, rock star David Byrne penned a feature titled ‘Why I Hate World Music.’ “In my experience, the use of the term world music is a way of dismissing artists or their music as irrelevant to one’s own life,” he avowed. “It’s a way of relegating this ‘thing’ into the realm of something exotic and therefore cute, weird but safe, because exotica is beautiful but irrelevant; they are, by definition, not like us… It groups everything and anything that isn’t ‘us’ into ‘them.’ This grouping is a convenient way of not seeing a band or artist as a creative individual, albeit from a culture somewhat different from that seen on American television. It’s a label for anything at all that is not sung in English or anything that doesn’t fit into the Anglo-Western pop universe this year.”
David Byrne hates World Music. Photo: Steve Gillett
Well, that’s David Byrne’s little local problem, but it is one that has occasionally raised its head among conspiracy theorists ever since the summer of 1987 when the original World Music campaign kicked in. Indeed, hardly had the first press releases settled on journalists’ desks when London’s City Limits magazine ran a knee-jerk featurette penned by Rick Glanville under the heading ‘Bullshit Detector’. “Anybody from the Third World is allowed to join through the paternalistic assumption of rudimentary, exotic and inaccessible qualities. What the punter-friendly moniker fails to do is sidestep the middle class white dominance which spawned it — fRoots magazine has tenaciously trumpeted acts like the Bhundu Boys and Youssou N’Dour when such hi-tech contemporary synth bands have never worn an Aran jumper in their lives.”
Most of that says a lot more about the prejudices of the accuser than it does about the subject itself. In Britain, anything done out of enthusiasm by somebody with the slightest whiff of middle-classedness about them is automatically cause for intense suspicion. If such enthusiastic middle-class activists happen to be white and male too then it’s an automatic conviction and throw away the key. Oddly, many of the people who hold these views are white, male and inescapably middle class too. Similarly, across the Atlantic there is a type of American who views anything done by those nasty ex-colonialist Brits (excluding, of course, the poor down-trodden Celts) as bound to be reprehensible. Of course, they then get very jumpy if we mention Coca Cola, cultural colonialism and the CIA…
All of this was very far from the thoughts of those who instigated the short-term marketing plan that resulted in World Music becoming a ‘genre’. There was nary a subconscious twinge of a thought of ghettoising third world artists as irrelevant exotica or dressing them in Aran sweaters, I promise you.
How did we get to that point in now ancient history? Well, looking at it from personal experience, back in the 1960s it was very hard to find anything in England which wasn’t American or a local copy of it (that’ll teach those ex-colonialists, eh?). In turn, jazz, folk and blues (and later reggae) each had a boom, establishing such sufficiently sizeable niches that you would henceforth find their sections in most record shops. What might actually be put in those sections never needed to be fully defined, not that anybody ever could. The important thing was that you gut-feeling knew what jazz or folk was, even if it wasn’t the same gut-feeling as the next person had. If you thought that was what you liked, then you knew where there might be a chance of finding it. Record shop staff could take a reasonable shot at which box to drop an LP sleeve into. So the stuff sold to the fans who wanted to buy it, and the curious beginner had somewhere to browse.
In the early ’60s, things were a lot less tribal. One night we’d go to see pop R&B bands, another it might be jazz (trad or be-bop, didn’t matter) or folk. My local beatnik coffee bar had a Miriam Makeba record which attracted my attention, and bits of Latin jazz that had less appeal due to personal trumpet phobia. Davy Graham’s early records had intriguing stuff that we were told came from expeditions to North Africa. So when my burrowings into roots musics led me eventually to havens like Collett’s, I’d occasionally impulse-buy albums on Lyrichord, Folkways or Nonesuch. Whilst my main interest at the time was country blues, I slowly accumulated Bauls from Bengal, Egyptian and Chinese instrumental music and Georgian choirs. I even had the mad idea, circa 1969 when I folded up my country blues band, of trying to do some blend of these musics with blues, but I didn’t have the slightest clue where to find the players so my chance of being several decades ahead of my time died on the drawing board. But I was lucky: most people didn’t know about Collett’s and if there was an ‘International’ section in their local record shop it contained Johnny Halliday, Nana Mouskouri, Dorita y Pepe and a Dutch fake Hawaiian called Wout Steenhuis. Not a lot of inspiration to enthusiasm in there.
Dorita y Pepe sing the
As I wasn’t too bright or motivated, I didn’t go to university and thus grew a deep mistrust of people who used terms like ‘ethnomusicology’ and ‘anthropology’. But there were other underground routes to worldly delights. The American magazine Sing Out! was one. I first heard Bai Konte’s kora on one of their flexi-discs in the ’70s, little imagining that I’d one day visit his home and work with his son. At the beginning of the ’80s things gradually started to get better. The information revolution was growing and the world was getting smaller. Not long after this magazine started up, there was another short-lived but vital publication called Collusion, edited by David Toop, Sue Steward and Steve Beresford. Like Blues Unlimited in the ’60s it brought the wonderful realisation that there were other like-questing minds out there, sources for import records — Ali Farka Toure, Les Ambassadeurs, holy shit! — and information.
In what now seems a relatively short time there came King Sunny Ade, Youssou N’Dour and Thomas Mapfumo to play live before our very eyes, GLC shows, gigs in the park behind behind the Commonwealth Institute, Arts Worldwide events and Womad, Earthworks, GlobeStyle and Stern’s. Alexis Korner, ever broadminded, would play Okinawan records on the radio, Charlie Gillett and Andy Kershaw soon became converts to international sounds, and the 3 Mustaphas 3 popped up on John Peel. Our magazine was able to review more and more records because they were now becoming available on local release or import, and artists came here so we could talk to them. My own little record label emerged at the beginning of the ’80s with a minor hit by Bulgaria’s Nadka Karadjova (entirely, it must be said, because of concentrated novelty airplay by Terry Wogan) and the far more hip indie label 4AD had a mammoth seller with Les Mysteres De Voix Bulgares. But where the hell did you look in your High Street record shop for all this varied music that now had a burgeoning would-be buyer base but no obvious rack to browse?
It was Roger Armstrong and Ben Mandelson from GlobeStyle who called the fateful meeting. For some reason I’ve kept all the minutes. At 7.00pm on Monday June 29th, 1987, what was initially described as an ‘International Pop Label Meeting’ was convened at the Empress Of Russia in St. John Street, Islington (then also the home of Islington Folk Club: recently closed to become a restaurant). “The main aim”, began the suggested agenda, “is to broaden the appeal of our repertoire”, and it listed various points for discussion such as identifying who the target audience were, how to reach them, how to deal with this at retail and, crucially, “Adoption of a campaign/media title”.
The minutes record who was there: Chris Popham, Ben Mandelson, Roger Armstrong and Ted Carroll from GlobeStyle/ Ace; Jonathan Rudnick from Crammed US; Amanda Jones, Thos Brooman and Steve Hadrell from Womad; Charlie Gillett from Oval; Mark Kidel from Channel 4; Ian Anderson and Lisa Warburton from Folk Roots/Rogue Records; Anne Hunt, Mary Farquharson and Nick Gold from Arts Worldwide/World Circuit; Scott Lund and Iain Scott from Stern’s/Triple Earth; Joe Boyd from Hannibal and writer Chris Stapleton — virtually all still involved in this music today. Later meetings also saw participation from Robert Urbanus from Stern’s, Mike Chadwick from Revolver distribution, Mark Stratford from New Routes distribution, John Martin from 11th Hour/Crossing The Border; Gordon Potts and Simon Coe from Virgin Retail; Andrea Lawrence from Cooking Vinyl; Jumbo Vanrenen and Trevor Herman from Earthworks, Nick Carnac from Carnacdisque; Doug Veitch, Owen & Phil from Disc’Afrique, Lucy Duran from the National Sound Archive, and writers Philip Sweeney, Chris Hawkins and Klaus Frederking. But it’s the first night bunch who you can blame for ‘World Music’ as the genre that now exists.
It wasn’t a new name, just one of many that had floated around in the preceding decades. But the logic set out by Roger Armstrong was that an established, unified generic name would give retailers a place where they could confidently rack otherwise unstockable releases, and where customers might both search out items they’d heard on the radio (not knowing how to spell a mis-pronounced or mis-remembered name or title) and browse through wider catalogue. Various titles were discussed including ‘Worldbeat’ (left out anything without drums), ‘Tropical’ (bye bye Bulgarians), ‘Ethnic’ (boring and academic), ‘International Pop’ (the death-by-Johnny-and-Nana syndrome) and ‘Roots’ (left out Johnny and Nana). ‘World Music’ seemed to include the most and omit the least, and got it on a show of hands. Nobody thought of defining it or pretending there was such a beast: it was just to be a box, like jazz, classical or rock…
The plot progressed quickly during that summer. The princely sum of £3500 was contributed by the participants, headed browser dividers were manufactured for distribution to shops along with a co-operative starter pack of some 50 albums that were likely to be stout sellers, freelance press officer Suzanne Parks was hired for a short contract, press releases and information packs were written, Ben Mandelson assembled a compilation cassette for promotion and sale through the NME, and October was designated World Music Month. Somebody much later suggested that our £3500 eventually bought more worldwide column inches and airwave hours pound-for-pound than any other campaign in the history of the music biz: Suzanne Parks got head-hunted by a major label as their press officer.
Co-plotters Roger Armstrong and Ben Mandelson
Nowhere in any of this was there the faintest whiff of exploitation, exclusivity, cliques, ghettoisation, conspiracies, cultural imperialism, racism or any of the other nonsensical -isms that have been chucked at the notion since, often by people who ought to know better and in the end do little more than expose their own foibles. It was simply a great idea, followed up by a lot of unprecedented co-operation between enthusiasts (very few thought of each other as business rivals) who wanted others to have more opportunity to share their enthusiasms. Yes, it was good for business, but by being so it was automatically good for the incomes of the artists too.
Of course, being older and, if not wiser, having the benefit of hindsight, one can see that having such a simple concept without any baggage was still likely to bring problems. Even if the original idea was virus-free, it was bound to get thoroughly bugged as others logged on.
In minority musics as in political parties, people will always invent conspiracies and low motives where none exist (the enthusiastic activist must have a sub-plot, mustn’t they?) But just try explaining the role of the enthusiast to a musician from a poor third world country where the very notion is alien. I remember an in-law of mine from Madagascar bursting into tears when, having finally grasped the totally unknown concept of ‘a hobby’, she also realised that this notion involving spare time was a supreme luxury even further beyond her grasp than mere material possessions.
Imagine what suspicions must easily and understandably course through the minds of third world musicians working with western producers and promoters, especially when their home experience of the record business is often of being ripped-off and bootlegged by their fellow countrymen on an unimaginable scale. Why on earth would this apparently rich Westerner (for that’s how we seem) be doing this for hardly any return? They must be ripping me off! Couple that with the quite reasonable logic that Michael Jackson’s got a CD out and he’s riding in limos and living in a mansion, but I’ve got a CD out and I’m not… Small wonder that virtually all world music producers and promoters have at least one sad tale to tell of an unfortunate misunderstanding or relationship breakdown over money with a musician they’d worked so hard to help.
Mind you, when The Voice was conned into publishing a grossly libellous piece suggesting that artists including Dembo Konte & Kausu Kuyateh were being exploited by “World Music slavemasters” like Ian Anderson, Lucy Duran and the Womad organisation, Dembo was so livid that he immediately set off down to the paper’s office to remonstrate. The features editor nearly lost his job: because the piece had said what they so wanted to be true, they’d published it without checking first…
The racism issue is always hard to deal with. At an unruly public discussion held in the mid ’80s, a group of Arts Council funded UK-based African musicians declared that the reason they had to search for their own gigs and self-produce their albums was that they were black in a white society. I pointed out that virtually all white English folk musicians had to do the same thing, without any grant aid, but that if at the end of the day there were no gigs coming in we had to face up to the fact that maybe people didn’t think our music was any good. The guys in that band never needed to deal with that concept as they could always use the racism excuse. Needless to say, it wasn’t a well-received message.
Long after all the dust has settled, who knows what was really going through Paul Simon’s mind when he set off to record Graceland? Yes, he was able to rejuvenate his career and enjoy the fruits of a multi-million seller with music that couldn’t have been made without the contribution of outside-unknown black South African musicians. But was he aware of the political minefield he was entering over the cultural boycott? Was he an ’80s Pat Boone figure, watering down black music just to gain success with his white audience? Or was he blindly propelled into the project by an enthusiasm for music he’d personally discovered and wanted to share with others? Who are we to judge, without exposing our own prejudices, jealousies and pre-conceived ideas? What I do know is that fellow DJs at my local radio station stopped taking the mickey and started asking to borrow the African records I’d been playing. And that when I saw the Graceland tour, established Simon fans were mightily pissed off by the way he stayed out of the limelight and let Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Miriam Makeba front the show, and since those days Ladysmith have become million-sellers themselves. Oh, but I forgot, they “sold out” by doing a beans commercial, so they don’t count…
That latter kind of reaction to world music artists is part of yet another set of problems heaped on this genre that doesn’t exist other than as a box in a record shop.
Angelique Kidjo complains in her introduction to the recent Music Hound World book that “Critics generally want a musician from a foreign country to stick to a pure tradition; he has to be ‘authentic’.” Well, there are ‘purists’ and ‘traditionalists’ in just about every form of music. But it was never part of the original World Music concept to tell artists what to do, just to help them sell records. There’s no rules to stop Kidjo or Youssou N’Dour or Zap Mama if they want to make music that they or the buyers may feel fits better in a different box, or no box at all. If they move into a genre that thousands of other artists are already involved in, perhaps as a route to ‘crossover’ success, it’s their choice. It is perhaps more likely to be their loss of uniqueness rather than ‘authenticity’ — there may be many other artists already in that field who do it better — that loses fans. If the recording artist has the right to make whatever music they like, the potential buyer also has the right to buy what they like — or not.
Editor in frenzied Aran sweater attack on fiercely resisting World Music victim… Photo: Jak Kilby
Of course, it’s another story if the changes are forced on the artist by the record label, but I don’t detect that being on the agenda of any of the original World Music plotters. Yes, by becoming a rolling bandwagon it did later pick up a small selection of shysters, control freaks, newage knob-twiddlers, self-glorifiers and sick California crazies with a weird and varied selection of personal agendas. But that’s bath water for you.
Sub-cultures of World Music fans even go through internecine attitude struggles. When I started to get this magazine up to speed with its coverage of what-was-yet-to-be-called World Music in the early ’80s, many noses were looked down by other people who were already involved, or perhaps entering from the jazz direction, at the thought of these dreadfully embarrassing uncool folkies getting interested. It took quite a while to undo those prejudices (some of the very people who were later at that inaugural meeting took some convincing, I can tell you…) and it goes on in other quarters to this day. Yes, there are some out there who don’t like the term World Music simply because — as it has been consistently championed by the likes of fRoots — they still make imagined Aran sweatery connotations. Twerps…
At the end of World Music Year Zero, 1987, I went to the best ever gig of my whole life — Youssou N’Dour in the stadium at Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal. Later that night, we sat talking at Youssou’s hotel and another English person in the party told him how he hoped Youssou wouldn’t go the route of Salif Keita’s then-recent Soro album, which the Englishman considered ‘Westernised’ as it was full of synthesizers. Youssou politely, gentlemanly, put the guy in his place, saying that instruments don’t have a nationality, only musicians, and that if a Senegalese musician played a synthesizer or an electric guitar, it became a Senegalese instrument. Recently I was able to talk with Youssou again about Western attitudes to this music (he reconfirmed his 1987 belief) and whether he saw a difference between how the Americans, the British and the French approach things.
His answers were revealing. “I’m really more close to the British vision than the French,” he said. “France was much more involved with their colonisation, compared with how things were with the British in Ghana, for example, and in the same way they really don’t have such a good approach for this music. It’s definitely different.” We talked about how in colonial days their subjects had to learn French, whilst the British were content to largely leave education in the local language. “And Americans, they just don’t know. They’re really closed. When we did the big Amnesty tour everywhere, I was really close to one black American. We flew to Abidjan and when we arrived we took a bus, nine o’clock at night. He said ‘Where is Africa?’ He saw the buildings and lights. ‘This is not Africa’. They think there is a country called Africa where we all speak ‘African'”.
Madagascar’s Tarika have an affectionate term for those genuinely friendly, determined-to-bond Americans who show up backstage in all-purpose colourful robes and world music hats. They call them “professional Africans”. And when Tarika first started touring in the USA, their pals from the Mustaphas told them that when people in diners or on the street asked where they came from, all they needed to say was “out of town” and the enquirer would be completely satisfied with the answer. It turned out to be absolutely true. I once read and have now forgotten the percentage of US citizens who own a passport, and it was startlingly low. That is probably why an American journalist on a conference panel once avowed that it was a lot easier for Europeans to hear World Music because we lived so much closer to it, and it’s surely this rather than a box called World Music which explains why the most common adjective that crops up in Tarika’s US press cuttings is “exotic”.
The trouble with Americans, as somebody once said, is that they think they own the world but they don’t know where it is. Roy Bookbinder once told a classic tale of a Florida club promoter who, on learning Roy was about to go to England on tour, assumed he must speak French as “it’s so close to Paris…”
Of course none of the above applies to David Byrne, who is a sophisticated, educated, world-travelling artist, runs a label that has put out some fine international ethnic tropical worldbeat records, and rose above all that long ago. However, it maybe explains why he imagines everybody else categorises World Music in that way he doesn’t like. But mostly they don’t. Not outside his native USA, anyway, and I’m not even sure it’s so universally true there. People just find it a useful box, all that was originally intended. They certainly put records in it that neither you, I, the original plotters or David Byrne alike would ever dream of including — have you seen what Billboard includes on their World Music chart? — but it still serves its original great purpose.
It’s not all positive, but World Music (or Musique du Monde in neighbourly Paris) is way ahead on points. It sells large quantities of records that you couldn’t find for love or money two decades ago. It has let many musicians in quite poor countries get new respect (and houses, cars and food for their families), and it turns out massive audiences for festivals and concerts. It has greatly helped international understanding and provoked cultural exchanges — people who’ve found themselves neighbours in the same box have listened to each other and ended up making amazing music together. Oh, and it has allowed a motley bunch of enthusiasts to not yet need to get proper jobs. I call it a Good Thing, and just feel a bit sorry for people with the thinking time on their hands to decide they hate World Music… Lighten up, guys, it’s only a box in a record shop.
Main pic: Youssou N’Dour by Dave Peabody
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Lada Ray Report: Real Reason Putin Pardoned Murderer Nadezhda Savchenko
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jyotishmoy | May 25, 2016
Lady Lada, Putin has signed a decree pardoning “Nadezhda Savchenko” recently! i just don’t know what to say about this !!? Just hope, we do not see her again directing Ukrainian artillery on Donbass & Lugansk, within months ! That would be very sad outcome !
The real reason Putin pardoned Nadezhda Savchenko
Nadezhda Savchenko is a Ukrainian subversive operative and member of the ukro-nazi battalion Aidar. For some incomprehensible reason she is often referred to as ‘pilot,’ which is false since she had never flown a single mission anywhere. The ‘pilot’ title is clearly attached to her to give her more weight. Those who knew her report that she always had sadistic tendencies and enjoyed torturing prisoners.
Savchenko was captured after she subversively and knowingly directed the fire of Ukraine artillery to the territory of DNR, which killed two accredited Russian journalists. She is also accused of directing Ukraine fire against a large crowd of unarmed refugees, many of whom were killed. Savchenko was tried and received 22 years in Russian prison. The Russian trial was accompanied by unprecedented pressure on Russia by the West and the pogroms of the Russian embassy and consulates in Ukraine.
During her trial Savchenko behaved like a crazed maniac, screaming out profanities, showing rude gestures to the judge, jumping up and down chairs. Her ‘support club’ made a lot of noise during court sessions, waving Ukrainian flags and screaming ukro-nazi slogans. All this happened in Russia, which, as we may conclude, is the most liberal, forgiving and democratic country in the world.
I can only imagine what would happen to Savchenko and her bouncing of the wall supporters if they tried such stunts in a US court. Savchenko would have never seen the light of day again, and said supporters would be in jail before they could say ‘oops.’
Certainly, none of this would have been possible in Ukraine at all. If anyone ever dared to publicly support during their Kiev trial the two Russians, Erofeev and Alexandrov, who ended up being exchanged for Savchenko, they would simply be tortured and killed. That’s exactly what happened to the defense attorney representing one of the Russians. A well-known Ukrainian lawyer Yury Grabovsky, originally from Odessa, was defending Alexander Alexandrov. According to testimonials, he managed to make a pretty good case against conviction. While Grabovsky was there, junta simply could not seal the case against the two Russians.
Incidentally, these two Russians were kidnapped by Ukraine subversives inside DNR territory, dragged across the border to the Ukrainian side and put on trial on trumped up charges.
How lawyer Yury Grabovsky was killed by Kiev ukro-nazis
Grabovsky, who was too successful in proving the charges of terrorism to be bogus, was kidnapped, tortured and killed. His only crime was doing his job as a public defender. When he didn’t show for trial, his friends became suspicious. To confuse the investigation Grabovsky’s killers for two weeks made bogus entries into Grabovsky’s Facebook page. In these entries, Grabovsky supposedly wrote that he was tired and that he was leaving abroad on vacation. Two things rose red flags: the fact that he was due in court and the uncharacteristically illiterate style of writing.
Grabovsky’s body was found over two weeks after his disappearance. It was dumped in an abandoned orchard very far from Kiev, where the Russians’ trial was taking place. Ukro-nazi thugs responsible for his death published his video admission, extracted under torture. In it, disoriented and, apparently, in much pain Grabovsky is made to repeat after the invisible man, whose voice sounds very young – no more than 20 or so. This young man forces Grabovsky to say that he was wrong to defend the ‘Russian terrorist,’ that he asks for forgiveness and that he won’t do it again.
Yury Grabovsky (right) at trial, Alexander Alexandrov behind him
(I could, but I deliberately won’t publish a photo of the murderer Nadezhda Savchenko. Don’t want to sally my blog with such filth.)
I watched Grabovsky’s ‘apology’ video when it first came out (there may still be something left on YouTube, but I wouldn’t hold my breath – YT is usually very good at removing the truth). I had chills watching it.
All smart and good people left Ukraine – only the dregs are left
As I said many times before, all people with brains, hearts and reason left the territory we so far still call Ukraine. The smartest ones left 20-30 years ago. They moved to Russia or other countries, where their talents could be appreciated. Millions of others left later. By 2014, the few decent ones that were still left to hold down the fort were either killed, disappeared, thrown in jail or chased out of the country by Kiev junta and ukro-nazis. The very, very few brave people who are still there and who have not submitted to the open ukro-fascism, are in grave danger.
The murders of Grabovsky, journalist Oles Buzina, activist Oleg Kalashnikov, as well as a long string of high profile fake ‘suicides’ prove this beyond any doubt.
Those who call the shots in Ukraine are the worst dregs of society, outright criminals and vicious thugs. The rest is the silent, scared to death, confused and desperate population. And all this disaster is supported, encouraged and egged on by the US and EU. A very sad and shameful state of affairs indeed.
Humanitarian exchange: Russians Erofeev and Alexandrov swapped for Savchenko
This is the video of the two men landing in Russia, after a year in Ukrainian prison.
Below is a video of the young wives of the Russian officers Erofeev and Alexandrov saying how hard it was for them to live through their husbands’ capture and sadistic trial, in which they were denied any semblance of normal defense and were constantly intimidated. But, the women say, they always knew their loved ones wouldn’t be abandoned by the country. As we see from the Grabovsky story, there was a very legitimate reason to fear for the men’s lives, should they remain in Ukraine.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the mother and sister of the two slain Russian journalists, who are dead because of Savchenko, asked to release her for humanitarian reasons in order to exchange her for Erofeev and Alexandrov. Peskov said that the request from the two women came in March 2016.
Here is Peskov’s announcement (Russian).
Video of Vladimir Putin meeting with two women, relatives of slain Russian journalists (Marianna Voloshina and Ekaterina Kornelyuk). Putin thanks them for their humanitarian position and hopes that this gesture of good will will help peace in Donbass.
Путин встреча с Марианной Волошиной и Екатериной Корнелюк 25 мая 2016 года.
How Russians feel about Savchenko and her pardon
There are many voices saying Russia should have made Savchenko serve the entire term and that pardoning her and sending her back is like announcing an open season for kidnapping or killing Russians in Ukraine and DNR/LNR. Such people think that this would only encourage more crimes by ukro-nazis. There is some logic to that. Others say Savchenko should have been exchanged for as many people as possible, perhaps, for all political prisoners Kiev has in prisons, and then some.
Presently, there are many unhappy people, who do not accept that Savchenko was let go that easily; people are indignant at how she behaved in court and the fact that she made an open mockery of the court, her sentence and crime.
This mockery was parroted and multiplied in Ukraine, EU and Anglo-American countries. Russians are absolutely outraged at how the West behaves in this matter, as well as others (which we will discuss in the following articles).
Many Russians are now convinced USA and NATO want to start nuclear World War III – and US and EU have no one to blame for it but themselves!
THE REAL REASON SAVCHENKO WAS RELEASED
I’ll give you my view of why Savchenko was pardoned and released.
Savchenko = bargaining chip
Firstly, I believe that she was from the start perceived by Russian leadership as a bargaining chip. She was taken prisoner, tried and convicted, while the hysteria in Ukraine and West around her intensified. While unpleasant, I believe that Russians wanted this hysteria to take place, for one purpose: to hype up her value as a bargaining chip.
There were constant screams from Ukraine and West: ‘free Nadezhda Savchenko.’ Savchenko kept announcing her fake ‘dry hunger strikes,’ which no one believed. After a dry hunger strike a person can’t even stand on one’s feet, while she was jumping up and down during trial and screaming out obscenities. Yulia Timoshenko tried to capitalize on Savchenko’s fame by nominating her to Ukraine Rada from her party. While remaining in Russian jail, Savchenko, bypassing any imaginable laws, suddenly became a Rada deputy. I believe Savchenko was also ‘elected’ in absentia to Europarliament (illegally, of course).
It appears the Rada isn’t a zoo enough – Savchenko will definitely enhance its ‘Lord of the Flies’ look. Europarliament is right behind the Ukraine Rada in that.
All the above hype made Savchenko – nothing in real life – a very valuable bargaining chip.
Poroshenko vs Timoshenko
One of the things many overlook is that Poroshenko is mortally afraid of Savchenko returning to Kiev in her present capacity as a perceived victor. With her loud and black mouth, plus no brains to speak of, she may become someone who may damage Poroshenko’s reputation and wreak havoc in the Rada. She may cause havoc in Europarliament, as well.
Poroshenko is afraid that she will be used to rival him. Yulia Timoshenko will do everything to wind her up and set her loose on her rival. Timoshenko is licking her lips at the presidential post, dreaming about unseating Poroshenko. One possibility: she can announce her candidacy together with Savchenko. Considering how stupid and deranged Savchenko is, it’ll be nice to see these spiders in a jar devouring each other.
Basically, they all do what US ambassador, Nuland and Biden say. I described how it all works in ESR3: OLIGARCH WARS. Incidentally, US ambassador Payet, who orchestrated Kiev maidan and 2014 coup together with Nuland, is out, replaced with another colonial ruler. But it’s still the same drill. That said, it’s getting really hard for the US to keep all these spiders in Ukrainian jar under control. Soon, it will prove impossible.
If Savchenko remained in Russian jail
Another thing to keep in mind about Savchenko is that for the duration of her being in a Russian jail she would be creating anti-Russian propaganda ops all around her persona by constantly going on fake hunger strikes and yelling and screaming for Western audiences how she is being mistreated.
Then, there is the issue of her security. It is almost certain that she would have been killed in Russian jail within 1-2 years.
By whom? Either by Ukraine operatives or by CIA, probably working together. Why? Because to them she is a lot more valuable dead than alive. Her dying in Russian jail would be yet another GOLDEN opportunity to vilify Russia and get a new round of sanctions going.
Hermitage Capital, Magnitsky Act and anti-Russian conspiracy
This is not a supposition, but an almost 100% assurance. Do you recall the death in a Russian jail of Sergei Magnitsky? Supposedly, Magnitsky died of a heart attack as a result of not being given proper medical care. However, it is well-known in Russia that a member of medical personnel was bribed (it was an infiltration, actually) not to provide medical care when prisoner needed it, resulting in his death. Magnitsky is presented in the West as a lawyer to Hermitage Capital. This is false: Magnitsky was an accountant, not a lawyer. Here’s why it’s important.
Hermitage Capital was a US/UK investment company that was accused by Russian authorities in money laundering and tax avoidance. Magnitsky was the accountant who was in charge of the cooking of the books.
In reality, Hermitage Capital was the front for subversive conspiracy focused on regime change in Russia. It was curated by MI6 and CIA. The goal was to unseat Putin and sabotage Russian industry, leading to the country’s complete disintegration. The supposed investment company Hermitage worked with a very influential pro-West Russian opposition leader, whom it supplied with money, secret intel and instructions.
In THE EARTH SHIFTER and in ESR3: OLIGARCH WARS I described the high-profile case involving oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his cronies. Khodorkovsky was nailed on charges of money laundering, while the real charge should have been treason. The Hermitage Capital story is another one in the same vein, the difference being that pro-West political oppositioner was used as a pointman, instead of oligarchs.
In OLIGARCH WARS I also mention another oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the failed plot to blame Putin for his sudden death in London. In the Hermitage Capital conspiracy Berezovsky is important. This story is even more convoluted than Khodorkovsky’s. I have the full material on the recently revealed scandal, who blew the whistle and who was implicated. I may have an Earth Shift Report on that soon (stay tuned!).
Long story short, Magnitsky was very dangerous to CIA alive in jail, where he could eventually start talking, but he was very valuable dead. He conveniently and suddenly dies and now we have the Magnitsky Act.
Wikipedia tells us what it is: The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and President Obama in November–December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009.
So, If, by some miracle, Ukraine or CIA didn’t get Savchenko in Russian jail, chances are those who suffered from ukro-nazis, battalion Aidar or as a result of Savchenko’s personal actions, would. Frankly, if I were the president of Russia, I wouldn’t want this kind of high maintenance prisoner on my territory. Try her, give her guilty verdict and maximum sentence and then unleash this furious Trojan Horse on Ukraine to undermine it from within – a much better plan.
If she remained, I’d have fully expected Savchenko to die in Russian prison of some mysterious cause, thus triggering US Congress and Europarliament passing ‘the Savchenko Act.’
When she dies in Kiev, it’ll be their problem. In either event, keeping this hysterical and not very bright ukro-nazi alive and happy will be a very big job. Good luck to them – they’ll need it.
You can watch this video by RT: Villain or hero? The many faces of Nadezhda Savchenko. I think the answer to this question is abundantly clear.
In this specific case, she has been exchanged for two Russians, who’d be in grave danger otherwise. This is already a good outcome.
But there is much more going on behind the scenes, and it’ll never be admitted or advertised…
I have been noticing for a period of time that Western investments into Russia have begun accelerating. Recall that I predicted in 2014 that the West would huff and puff for about 2 years after Crimea: sanctions, anti-Russian hysteria, etc. I said in 2014 that it would be just like the 2008 Georgia/S. Ossetia conflict. After 2 years of hysteria, they would begin remembering that they can’t really do much without Russia, such as various peace negotiations as well as business deals and trade relations.
Although Europe seems to be ready to abandon sanctions, US is really standing in the way, stubbornly attempting to prolong sanctions for as long as possible. Obama’s ego is permanently wounded due to his usually looking like a loser compared to Putin. This wounded little ego is one of the reasons.
Considering Obama’s childish pouting and silly resentment of Russia and Putin, an additional push was needed. I am sure that Savchenko’s pardon was used as a bargaining chip in relaxing anti-Russian sanctions. They will keep those sanctions on for a while, probably till the end of year. This has to do, as I said, with Obama’s wounded ego (what do you expect from such little, tiny man). Obama wants to leave office with sanctions intact. Try to save face, count at least this as his ‘victory’…
But what’s impossible to hide is that suddenly more and more European businesses are investing in Crimea and the flow of new Western investments into Russia is substantially up. This, despite sanctions! There is a definite coincidence between Savchenko’s release and sudden blindness of the EU when their businesses break anti-Russian sanctions. This is not to say that it’s all going to be champagne and roses, but I am certain a deal was struck that sanctions would remain in place in name only.
My opinion: this, at least in part, explains frequent recent mystery visits to Russia by Kerry and Nuland (and Kissinger earlier in the year).
Incidentally, this also likely concerns the Nord Stream-2 construction. I would expect an acceleration of this mega-project between Germany and Russia. After Nord Stream-2 is completed, Ukraine will lose its position as the most important transiter of Russian gas to EU. This will make Ukraine un-interesting to the US as a means of blackmailing and inflicting pain on both Russia and EU. As a result, US will release its grip on Ukraine.
As to the concern that Savchenko may return to direct Ukraine artillery strikes on Donetsk and Lugansk.
That would be really stupid of her, and here’s why. First, her face is now too well-known. Should she be captured again, this time she won’t get out alive – there are too many in Donbass who have a score to settle.
Secondly: she is too famous and ‘valuable’ now. Her card will be played by Timoshenko, who won’t let her go to Donbass, if she can help it. I’m sure others will also try to play her card. She’ll be wined, dined and courted. They’ll try to groom and mold her into something. But I think she is so dim and so stupid that she’ll definitely get herself in trouble within 6-7 months, or better yet, she’ll get the whole Kiev junta in trouble.
In short, a pawn such as Savchenko is very useful as a tool and bargaining chip. She doubles as an unpredictable Trojan Horse.
She’s about to fulfill her purpose. I intend to kick back and watch how Poroshenko and Kiev will manage to keep this loose cannon under control. US will have to work overtime, too. This should be quite a show.
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Posted on May 26, 2016, in Ask Lada, Geopolitical Trends, Russia, Ukraine, USA/EU/West and tagged Alexei Navalny, anti-Russian sanctions, battalion aidar, CIA, Dmitry Peskov, DNR, Donbass, Earth Shift Report 3: OLIGARCH WARS, Erofeev and Alexandrov, Europarliament, Hermitage Capital, Kerry, Kiev junta, LNR, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Nadezhda Savchenko, NordStream-2, Nuland, Obama, Poroshenko, Sergei Magnitsky, The Earth Shifter, The Magnitsky Act, ukraine thugs, ukro-nazi, USA, Vladimir Putin, why Putin pardoned Savchenko, Yulia Timoshenko, Yury Grabovsky. Bookmark the permalink. 23 Comments.
Jeremiah P. | May 26, 2016 at 9:02 am
Fantastic article! As a nation of chess players, I assumed that was why it was done. I am very proud of the fact that I am starting to think like you on these topics. You are a genius!
I want to add one observation, Obama is merely the puppet, to say that “Obama’s childish pouting and silly resentment of Russia and Putin” or that he has an ego or he is pushing anti-Russian sanctions or narrative is misleading. Obama is a nobody that has been groomed since his youth to be the front for the powerful elite. He is merely following the script provided and playing golf when not on acting the part. So when you say Obama you err, “Obama” or the Obama administration would be more accurate.
I love your work, and I donate, I hope that is helping.
Lada Ray | May 26, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Obama is a puppet – obviously. But you have to understand that (I hate using this term, but for the lack of a better quick one) ‘Dark Side’ feeds on lowly emotions = Low Calibrated Energy Vibrations (see my quantum calibrations scale on LadaRay.info). When low vibrations coincide with certain agendas, and Obama’s do, they usually do, just look at Ukraine – it is used to achieve certain results.
Believe me, HE IS doing what I said. There is plenty of proof that I see, like statements of EU leaders, Merkel’s especially, hidden revolts in various countries, etc. Just no time to go into that.
AND Obama is allowed or encouraged to do it.
Vanishing Point Studio | May 26, 2016 at 9:41 am
The video report says she’d signed up for the armed forces early on and had volunteered to go to Iraq, where she fought alongside US and UK forces.
Given the huge propaganda storm “the West” has raised over her detention and trial, in an obvious attempt to turn her into a cause célèbre, it seems highly probable to me that certain ‘special qualities’ she exhibited in Iraq were noticed and appreciated, and she was recruited. The fact that I don’t even have to specify by whom she would have been recruited or for what purpose to make my meaning clear is an indication of how transparent the whole bloody “game” has become.
If she is (or is even suspected of being) an acting asset or agent of the US/UK dark state, then one of the advantages of releasing her back into ‘the wild’ is that it lets the Russians see who she runs to first, who debriefs her. Observing the first 60 hours or so of what a person does after release from captivity can be quite revealing. Savchenko is a super-nasty piece of work, but she’s a little fish. If she has handlers, it might be good to map that out. Might even save some lives in the future.
That’s how I see it.
Also, it’s typical of Putin to make a generous gesture and take the peaceful path even when others are crying for blood and vengeance. It reminds us all of how Peacemaking is done: every day in every way with small gestures and gentle words you have to give peace a chance. That’s not to say VVP can’t be harsh. He can! But, the way he balances and employs the gentle and the harsh is very instructive. We should all be taking notes! (I know I am) …because an understanding of his method(s) is going to be on our final exam. 🙂
~ Nyna
Richard | May 26, 2016 at 10:45 am
Good analyis 🙂 you gave me some food for thought. I was also, initially disappointed because it created so much glee in Western media when she was released. It made me feel sick, but I realise now it might have been a very astute, smart move… 🙂 Best wishes,Richard
Joe | May 26, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Hi Lada
excellent analysis and reportage, as always. I suspected that there was much more to the the story than the Russians meekly complying due to EU pressure.
BTW, looking at Shavcenko, it is obvious she was well fed in jail. In fact, l’ll bet she enjoyed spending time incarcerated with other female prisoners.
You really should consider writing a column for a major media outlet such as RT.
I look forward to your next Earth Shifter Report.
Lada Ray | May 27, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Thanks, Joe. As to writing a column, not sure they can stomach it. What I write may be too much for them. 😉
Amazing restraint from the Russian gov’t and Prez Putin, who has an uncanny ability to make the right moves at the right time without undo attention, fanfare, emotions. A true grandmaster of geopolitical tactics and strategy. That’s why there’ll be no WW3 despite the provocateurs and warmongers at the US state dept.
Thanks, Maddie. Good point – but they are really asking for it.
Moscow Exile | May 26, 2016 at 2:17 pm
She was on trial in Donetsk, Rostov province, close to the Ukraine border.
Nice touch, that was.
Moscow Exile | May 27, 2016 at 12:35 am
PS Very interesting analysis!
Nemo1024 | May 26, 2016 at 3:27 pm
Lada, here is a link to that Grabovskij’s “apology” that you mention:
http://rutube.ru/video/f79c2e5b196eea0645ad73c58972ee0d/
I just made a connection of who Savchenko reminds me of – Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter universe!
kostya | May 26, 2016 at 9:10 pm
Realization; that the entire game of control is centered over energy distribution and who profits from that distribution: I’d like to know does Lada have any thoughts or views as to why the release of Tesla style free energy devices are not being more widely developed by Russian scientists to formulate a open source panacea to the world’s suffering. I know the US stole all of Tesla’s written work which explains their warped future ideological vacuum. I don’t believe this question is off topic in light of the underlying impetus to war.
Not off topic and good question. Of course, I have the answer to that. It’s the same one ‘the wise ones’ had been giving humans since forever, but you won’t like it.
In short, humanity isn’t ready for what you call ‘free energy.’
Long answer some other time, maybe I’ll include it in my LadaRay.info pages.
paleohippy | May 27, 2016 at 4:50 pm
This implies that humanity isn’t pulling its own strings and is being gratuitously “managed” by unseen forces. This is the big elephant in the room for us. I wish you would write a book about this. Just between you and me (nobody else is looking), is this about Enlil and Enki?
jyotishmoy | May 27, 2016 at 3:04 am
Brilliant article with Excellent analysis ! it seems President Putin did a very well placed Chess Move with his Uniqueness. 🙂
Gustav | May 27, 2016 at 5:02 pm
As always Lada’s articles are incredible opening eye and well explained. I was actually wondering the reasons as to why such a sub-human was let go from jail…but now I understand perfectly and it makes perfect sense as well. It is indeed a chez play with a fundamental well thought infrastructure. Thanks dear Lada.!
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brendanish | May 28, 2016 at 4:41 am
This is a great article and I learned a lot from it and the comments here. Thank you everyone!
I have bought into the message put out there that we can’t really trust any world leaders and that we should try to change the world by making changes individually (raise our own consciousness) or locally (develop closer ties to our community and set up better systems). But, I think I just figured out that we can’t just do this all on our own and we do need a wise world leader to see through the games that various leaders and groups are playing. And what a relief – I just realized that I do trust Mr. Putin to do this!
Nemo1024 | May 28, 2016 at 11:35 am
And Lada’s prediction re Savchenko wrecking havoc in Ukraine is already coming true: She already turned up in Rada barefoot, created a pandemonium, then made a press-statement that she’ll agree to be made president of Ukraine.
Gary | May 28, 2016 at 5:48 pm
As always what a great analysis! I didn’t follow this creature Savchenko’s story at all. Boy I really got caught up quickly. She’s a real piece of work. By the way I wouldn’t call her a loose cannon. She’s more like a loose nuclear weapon which Putin just tossed into the Kiev junta. She’s such a freakin’ imbecile that don’t be surprised if she shows up once again in the Donbass. Timoshenko may not be able to control her. LOL.
I know it’s off topic in this article but Obama has turned out to be a real horrible man on a par with W. Bush. Hillary will be equally horrible or possibly even worse than either W or Obama. I don’t know about you but I’m really looking forward to Trump mauling her in speeches and debates. I’m more and more of the opinion that Trump is the real deal. Listen to his recent speech lambasting and sarcastically mocking arch neo-con warmonger par excellence and vicious Russia hater Bill Kristol. https://youtu.be/2qj1YrlikF0?t=1
It’s really remarkable that one of the two final contenders for president of the US is ridiculing arch villain Kristol and amazingly in the speech Trump says that Kristol just likes to kill. WOW!! I may be naive but if Trump is not assassinated and becomes president we’re going to see some very positive things happen in the world. I can see Trump and Putin getting along really well. Call me gullible, naive or stupid but the more I see Trump’s speeches especially on foreign policy the more I like him. His personality really resonates with me. The first miracle of the 21st century was the ascendancy of Vladimir Putin. Could the second miracle be the ascendancy of Trump? Stay tuned.
Shaf | May 30, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Hi Lada, Savchenko is a Lesbian, what do you think will happen to the homosexualization of society and pushing of de-genderization (erasing the concept of separate sexes) the west is trying to push across the world under the guise of “LBGT” rights?
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[Drama 2019] The Secret Life of my Secretary / I love you from the beginning, 초면에 사랑합니다
By 0ly40, October 24, 2018 in k-dramas & movies
how to train your blind boss
kim young kwang
jin ki joo
i love you from the beginning
nohamahamoud2002 9,634
@turtlegirlI noticed a completely different kind of music, when Veronica Park came for the first time. It is La Campanella, if I remember right
The piano version
Then the violin version
Compare, there are two parts, one with the piano, then the shift to the violin, the next clip is from the drama
ktcjdrama 33,363
Gosh, these two are too cute!! They're not like boss and secretary, more like good friends goofing around each other... I couldn't imagine having a handsome boss who likes to have such close facial proximity... I wouldn't be able to last a day working for such a boss without fluttering heart, you know what I mean??
The misunderstanding at the end is just so hilarious to cause their fateful encounter. At least we're explained now about how he could not have recognized GH... It's all in the dress-up... LOLOL...
I can't wait for next episode. But honestly, I have a feeling that it's not going to be all fun and laughter going down the road. I'm preparing myself for a lot of angst on Dominique's part due to the misunderstanding and "deceit" from GH, and from bestie DJ as well.
2 hours ago, ktcjdrama said:
Gosh, these two are too cute!! They're not like boss and secretary, more like good friends goofing around each other... I couldn't imagine having a handsome boss who likes to have such close facial proximity... I wouldn't be able to last a day working for such a boss without fluttering heart, you know what I mean??
His smile is catchy, it melts my heart. And he is so childish, and he depends on her too much
I don't know how she concentrates on her work
blademan 16,186
I can't wait for next episode. But honestly, I have a feeling that it's not going to be all fun and laughter going down the road. I'm preparing myself for a lot of angst on Dominique's part due to the misunderstanding and "deceit" from GH, and from bestie DJ as well.
Oh for sure...And we know KYK and JKJ excel at that! I don’t even know how all the lies are gonna unravel at this point.
Let’s check:
- DMI being fooled by basically most of the people around him with DJ and GH and his ‘mum’.
- GH thinking the acceptance letter is real...I’m sure it’s fake.
- DJ and Sec Lee so shady!
- The uncle’s secretary and the creepy driver? WHAT WAS THAT.
- So far the only genuine character who’s living her life unapologetically is Veronica Park! AWESOME ~
At least we know GH will start feeling bad the moment she realises he’s actually falling for her as VP...DANG I’m invested!
8 minutes ago, blademan said:
Agree with the above here! I think a character like Veronica Park is a first for me. Like you want to hate her, but you just can't help but love her for her no nonsense
Surely GH is already having her heart fluttered with all the close proximity with Dom.
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Miky88 25,245
It's actually sad that almost everyone is trying to harm Do Min Ik and that just our heroine is by his side...With friends like Dae Joo better be all alone,(doubt he even considers Min Ik his friend)hope in the long run Do Min Ik will cut ties with him because he doesn't deserve it,trying to kill him or be bystander to it doesn't have any excuse in my view,if he was unlucky he would be dead by now...Quite hope by the end he will leave with Gal Hee and start their own business away from all this shady people...
nubianlegalmind 4,634
1 hour ago, Miky88 said:
This is why I hope GH doesn't make a habit of pretending to be VP. DMI desperately needs just one person to be on his side without any ill intent. So far, it has just been GH, as his friends and family all have something to gain from their connection to him. That is why when they were at the police station with DJ and DJ suggested they close the case because it would bring unwanted attention on DMI while he is up for CEO, and DMI readily agreed I cringed. People like him, who have been desperately trying their whole lives to belong to something or someone are quick to turn a blind eye to people that they believe they can trust who betray them. While I don't think DJ put a hit out on him, he knows that other people probably did and who it may be. If this happened to my friend, I would be on the cops neck to find the culprit. It doesn't fit that he would be so quick to push this under the rug. He knows that DMI's uncle is trying to push him out and he is just allowing himself to be used in that plot.
Also, Secretary Lee is going to somehow make GH out to be the villain in the future. You can see it lining up. She was the first one to remind everyone that DMI does not hold on to secretaries. So, why would she then show up, uninvited to the secretary's club outing? She isn't close to any of those girls, so how did she even find out about it? The one secretary friend who is related to the driver/attacker probably tipped her off. There is clearly more than meets the eye here.
I just want GH to wake up and pay closer attention to what is going on around her. She is too clueless to all of the snakes. That is really the only way that she could be of any help to DMI.
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@nohamahamoud2002 i was laughing my head off at this scene where she was ”exploiting” her VP identity & making him do all the things he would never have done for her as Gal Hee
And Gal Hee looking out for Min Ik has become such a habit that she , instantly without thinking makes him cough out his steak when she thought it had traces of nuts, which he is allergic to
Turned out it wasn’t & she was cursing herself in the toilet . , yes dear dear Gal Hee . This is like an occupational disease
He asked her how she knew about his allergy to nuts..quickly covered up & said his secretary told her
Lol, she could barely look him in the face the next day at work . Wahh our boss here has no idea of personal space . He is practically inches from her face each time
so I thought this was quite a crucial scene , instinctively , Min Ik in spite of his face blindness , thought the driver in the mask was his assailant . He was right of course . So he tried to bring the guy down . gal hee comes into the room to stop him and says it’s the driver. I’m actually so nervous that the driver is aware of Min ik’s every move . Still wondering who sent him
2 hours ago, nubianlegalmind said:
While I don't think DJ put a hit out on him, he knows that other people probably did and who it may be. If this happened to my friend, I would be on the cops neck to find the culprit.
I'm sure he knows and he already warned him even in today's episode to let him go to be able to keep living,something that was pretty awful...It's clear he doesn't consider DMI his friend and think of himself more like a minion or errand boy but heck,he is a grown a$$ man,if he had problems he should have talked with him and sort it out long time ago rather than pretend and put this mask of righteous man that Veronica Park well pointed(in terms of his business card)...Curious what the Secretary is hiding even from DJ,as clearly something happened before he left to USA...Curious if she made a deal with the former CEO(curious if he is his son)that payed his studies...About DJ,how much of a coincidence is that he meet the Driver that night when DMI was almost killed and even planted him besides him knowing more than sure he tries to harm him and looking for that USB...I find him quite horrible,no matter what the story it can't excuse his behaviour...He is plainly a snake and that double face is way worse...Sad that DMI can't see it or pretends not(nor does want to find actually the truth)as he will loose even the friend he thinks he has...Hope the Police continue the case not dropping it till they find the people behind all of this...
Also from the preview i sense GH sister might audition for Veronica Park if i saw it clear...
After today's episode i'm curious if he indeed will be able to see her while she is pretending to be Veronica Park and keep quiet and continue along her....
I think deep down GH likes DMI as a man but she doesn't realize it yet....
3 minutes ago, triplem said:
yes exactly, I felt the same, she is taking revenge I don't know why I remembered this song "Treat Her Like a Lady"
Ohhhh Dom is FALLING HARD
To see this completely different side to him - where he is not interdependent on another human he is so dependant on GH it's insane! But from context, it makes sense why he acts like a spoilt brat with her (remember this is a drama irl it's a different story) and I kinda get it...he just wants to feel like he belongs somewhere. He desperately wants a family to call his own. Deciding to go on a date just for his mum's approval. He even disregarded clear proof that DJ was at the scene of the crime cause he's in denial and doesn't want to lose his best friend. (I'll get to that later ) Besides, at this point GH is immune to it, it's like second nature to care and provide for him that it's almost enabling him. But again, he has changed...slightly - he now makes coffee for himself and shines his own shoes LOL that took him long enough!
DJ. I don't know how to feel about him. On one hand, it seems like he's conspiring with the driver. But then, I'm assuming he was a good friend to Dom but then got tired of being compared to him and now wants out. He even told Dom he doesn't want to be his 'minion' anymore! OUCH. Clearly it is one-sided at this point. It also seems like the uncle is trying to make him compete with DJ a lot. And SECRETARY LEE she creeps me out so much! Their friendship is also weird and shrouded in mystery...idk just please don't hurt Dom.
GH I LOVE HER! I really like her character. She's feisty, kinda awkward, cute and trying her best to live a good life honestly I like that she told herself it was just going to be that ONE TIME pretending to be VP but girl we know how flustered you got. Her relationship with Dom is so dang adorable I literally wait for their scenes as GH and Dom all the time! But now that she can see a new side of Dom with her acting as VP...its gonna send her on an emotional roller coaster.
Keep the lies coming
Also spoiler!!!
Now we know that Dom may be able to see faces again if his blood pressure is high enough to ensure blood flow to the affected part of his brain. The doctor from the US said her patient with the same condition reported 3 occasions in which he could clearly see faces again, for a short while. One was when he was making his graduation speech (nervousness and anxiety). Another time when he was working 3 nights in a row (stress and fatigue) and the third was when he realised he was in love
I wonder if Dom will figure out its GH and confront her about it...or maybe hide the fact to see how far she can go along with the lie?? We'll see!
PS. The visuals in this scene
Latte_Anyday 10,892
I'm not sure what to make of this drama 'cause a lot of it just seem like a farce to me?
There's been a growing trend of office romance dramas lately in particular to the dynamics between boss & secretary. Why? Are secretaries underappreciated in South Korea LoL? Well, it is a tough job after all, picking up after your boss..
I thought Lee Sung-kyung on Cheese in the Trap took the cake for most outlandish character..but nope. Veronica Park tops her! And geez I find Gal-Hee really LOUD. Like why she need to talk so loudly, almost screaming at times?!
And without her Ugly Betty get up Min-Ik can't recognise her LoL? Like he can't differentiate her voice? As if ha-ha. I'll keep watching but..with no expectations..there's really nothin' much else to watch currently in k-drama land..
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The lead actor here is a lot better at depicting the facial recognition symptoms than that other guy from Rich Man. The chemistry between the leads and storyline flows better as well. The main actress is so cute, she makes a great match with most of her co-stars! It's a predictable plot & cliche secretary theme...so hopefully the two leads will give us something different this time around.
I know this is supposed to be a rom-com... but after watching subs, I can't help but feel bad for both our leads and wonder what's in store for them down the road... For Dom, because he is falling in love with the "wrong" person. He thought it is Veronica Park ( I like spelling out her name in full) although I'm sure he won't mind when he later on found out that it is JGH after all.... As for DH, I feel bad for her because she is falling in love with Dom for all the sweet things he does, and yet he is doing all those stuff because he is doing it for Veronica Park, not for her...
So what do you all think of this theory ? Do you think he knows ? I think he’s got a hunch but can’t be absolutely sure
45 minutes ago, triplem said:
I don't think so, because of him still wondering in the hospital what she looks like... but I'm happy to be proven wrong... that he's known all this time and was just teasing her
Based on the last info by the visiting Doc, I am guessing that somehow one day he would finally see JDH face, dressed in Veronica Park outfit, when he truly fall in love with her. And the moment he sees her face, he would wonder why, what's happened, but he would keep it a secret and play with JDH a bit, a little bit of sweet revenge for deceiving him. She would then feel tortured and conflicted, and finally confessed.... ??
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so at this point, i am sure the sec lee (whom DJ calls noona) is his mother.. and he might as well be uncle's son
making our two leads cousins.
I love how much he already loves the secretary GH ..
Who was the girl he fell in love 3 years ago? And how did she break his heart? - either mom tormented the girl because she was low society or she was employed by uncle to spy on our male lead
Veronica Park rocks!!.. go and fiddle with DJ .. i like it
Ameera Ali 20,908
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Love episode 3
Crack me up , when Jung Gal Hee was talking about her experience working for Veronica Park
She joking right , all veronica Park want is to keep her warm , all season
* Bonus - how she nearly been caught badmouthing her was awesome
# best ex boss ever in my eyes
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Text: R. Collins
For many northern Michigan businesses and organizations, the serenity of the area’s natural environment—composed by sandy bluffs, fresh water, dense deciduous forests, and awe-inspiring seasonal changes—often inspires the design of retail and gathering spaces.
When it came time for Spa Grand Traverse, a full-service spa within the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme, Michigan, to receive an upgrade to its interior design, aesthetics inspired by northern Michigan’s natural assets were incorporated during the remodel to not only encourage relaxation, but also a sense of separation from a guest’s external stressors upon reopening.
“[We were] looking to find that same balance that is found in nature and wanting to bring that into the spa,” said Kimberly Fuller Lewis, principal at Fuller Design, a full-service interior and space planning firm in Rockford, Michigan.
“We really wanted to create a strong first impression and renew the overall ambiance to create a space that was fresh and inviting,” Fuller Lewis added.
Natural elements influenced all aspects of the redesign—finished in the spring of 2018—from surface materials to the spa’s ingredient menu and finishing touches. In the lobby, a modern reception desk was placed in front of stone white quartzite, amid custom retail display fixtures, local photographs, and oversized pendant light fixtures which diffuse lighting and add interest to the space.
A simple material palette of wood, textured glass, stone, and lime-washed Cyprus was set among a neutral color palette of sea salt, oyster bay soap stone, and light-washed gray. The changes in color and materials dramatically changed the interior’s personality, replacing previous superficial structural elements like cherry wood and darker tones.
“We wanted to give people a sense of space so they know they’re not just walking into a day spa somewhere,” Fuller Lewis said. “They’re going to know they’re in northern Michigan surrounded by the nature and what draws people to the resort. Even the patterns that we use reflect on nature.”
In treatment rooms, honey maple and LVT—or luxury vinyl plank flooring—were introduced to withstand both time and foot traffic; while also supplementing the nature-inspired aesthetic. To finish the process, Fuller Lewis noted that not sacrificing on finishing touches such as pillows, light pendants, contrasting textures, and even succulents to add fresh pops of greenery was as valuable as making the larger investments.
Each element of the redesign served to also reposition the spa’s expert services and a new menu highlighting organic wild sage and lavender to promote relaxation and healing. For Spa Director Dawn Olsen, the remodel served to create a tranquil space that will provide visitors with a memorable and comfortable experience that they return to.
“The return clientele like to see that we’ve invested,” Olsen said. “Any time you’re patronizing a business it’s nice to see them reinvest. We’re really proud of it.”
Since its opening in 1999, Spa Grand Traverse has positioned itself as an award-winning spa focusing on rejuvenation and utilization of natural ingredients to promote the body’s natural healing processes. A variety of services including massage and skin therapy, nail care, and hair artistry utilize a new, sustainable product line, Eminence Organics and aromatherapy line, Body Bliss, to gently assist in restoring peace of mind and body.
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Pink Ladies fund new mammography machine
News | Published: Jan 14, 2018
THE Breast Unit has received its new mammography machine thanks to fundraising efforts by the Pink Ladies.
Funds raised by The Pink Ladies have helped the Breast Unit to buy a state-of-the-art mammography machine. Left to right are: Health & Social Care president Heidi Soulsby, Lady Corder, patron of the charity, and Pink Ladies chairwoman Karen Leach. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 20362230)
The new equipment, which was unveiled by the wife of the Lt-Governor, Lady Corder, on Friday, is a state-of-the-art imager which enables mammographers to take more accurate readings.
Jan Coleman, director of hospital services at the PEH, paid tribute to the Pink Ladies.
‘From Health & Social Care we are extremely grateful for all the support from the Pink Ladies’ fundraising to replace this unit for us,’ Mrs Coleman said.
‘The equipment would have been on our replacement plan, but this has allowed us to replace it quicker with this brilliant piece of equipment.
‘As a health service we want to provide the best care to our service users.’
Karen Leach, chairwoman of the Pink Ladies, said it was a fantastic achievement for the charity.
‘As a charity, and as a woman, it’s a fantastic achievement for us as the Sunset Walks, particularly where we’ve raised the money for this investment for the mammography machine.'
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UAE Central Bank Asks Lenders About Exposure To Turkey
The UAE’s financial ties to Turkey have expanded in recent years as banks look to diversify out of the region’s oil-focused economy.
The United Arab Emirates central bank has asked local commercial banks in the country to provide details of their financial exposure to Turkey by Tuesday, two bankers said on Monday.
The central bank said in a circular its aim was to review the investments, the bankers said, declining to be named because they were not authorised to speak to media. One Dubai banker said it did not signal an attempt to curb the banks’ exposure to Turkey.
A central bank spokesman declined to comment.
Since the start of May, the Turkish lira has fallen nine per cent on investor concerns about anti-government protests and U.S. plans to scale back monetary stimulus.
The UAE’s financial ties to Turkey have expanded in recent years. But UAE banks are very well capitalised by international standards – some have capital adequacy ratios near 20 per cent of risk-weighted assets – so any trouble there appears unlikely to pose a major threat to them.
Gulf banks are looking to diversify out of the region’s oil-focused economy and are hamstrung by a lack of potential acquisitions at home.
Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) earlier this year bought a 70.8 per cent stake in Turkish lender Alternatifbank, while Qatar National Bank, the Gulf state’s largest lender, lost its bid for Denizbank last year to Russia’s Sberbank.
QNB’s chief financial officer said in January the bank was still interested in expanding into Turkey through acquisitions, though it had no firm targets.
UAE banks have also increased their exposure to Turkish debt, particularly Islamic bonds, or sukuk.
Middle East investors were allocated nearly 60 per cent of Turkey’s $1.5 billion debut sovereign sukuk last year, and several Gulf banks – including the UAE’s Noor Islamic Bank, Emirates NBD, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Al Hilal Bank – have acted as arrangers on deals originating from Turkey this year.
Sales of Turkish sukuk to Gulf investors may increase further as Turkey expands its offerings; Istanbul is working on new regulations to allow use of a wider range of sukuk structures, which could see Islamic bonds used for project finance and infrastructure development.
“We see (the circular) as a normal practice by the central bank to keep an eye on all international country exposure,” the Dubai banker said.
“It does not mean they will come up with a new regulation limiting exposure to Turkey unless the data compiled exceeded the norm.”
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Tanushree Dutta takes Nana Patekar to court
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Mumbai Police had filed a closure report in the alleged sexual harassment case
Published: July 08, 2019 11:43 IANS
Mumbai: Actress Tanushree Dutta during an interview in Mumbai, on Aug 2, 2018. (Photo: IANS) Image Credit: IANS
In less than a month after the Mumbai Police filed a closure report in the alleged #MeToo sexual harassment case lodged by Tanushree Dutta against actor Nana Patekar, the actress will now file a protest petition against the actor’s clean chit in the case.
Dutta has opposed the B-Summary report (filed when there is no evidence) filed by the Oshiwara police station. She was represented by advocate Nitin Satpute at Railway Mobile Court in Andheri, Mumbai.
“The court has granted her time to file a protest petition against the B-Summary report. Tanushree’s legal team was present, but not a single officer from the Oshiwara police station was in the court room at the time of hearing. The case has been adjourned to September 7,” said Satpute on Sunday.
In June, Mumbai Police spokesperson, Deputy Commissioner of Police Manjunath Shinge said: “Yes, we have filed a B-Summary Report before the court.”
The actress had lodged the complaint against Patekar in September 2018 accusing him of allegedly sexually harassing her over a decade ago, in 2008 during a shoot, but he had stoutly denied the charges levelled by her.
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Bottas takes Silverstone pole as Mercedes lock out front row
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc comes in third position
Published: July 13, 2019 19:32 AFP
Valtteri Bottas Image Credit: Reuters
Silverstone: Valtteri Bottas upstaged his teammate Lewis Hamilton on Saturday when he secured pole position as Mercedes locked out the front row of the grid for Sunday’s British Grand Prix.
The Finn, who is 31 points adrift of defending five-time champion Hamilton in this year’s title race, clocked a track record fastest lap of one minute and 25.093 seconds to outpace the local hero by just 0.006 seconds.
Charles Leclerc of Ferrari was third, 0.079 seconds adrift of Bottas, ahead of Max Verstappen and his Red Bull teammate Pierre Gasly with four-time champion Sebastian Vettel sixth in the second Ferrari.
Australian Daniel Ricciardo was seventh for Renault ahead of British rookies Lando Norris of McLaren and Alex Albon of Toro Rosso. Nico Hulkenberg was 10th in the second Renault.
Bottas’s success brought him his first British pole position.
“It was really good and it reminds me of why we do this,” said a smiling Bottas.
“It’s been really close with Lewis all weekend and I am really happy to get such a good lap and pole.”
Hamilton, who made two slight mistakes, said: “Congratulations to Valtteri — he did a really good job. It wasn’t quite good enough … But this is the best Grand Prix of the year because of the energy this crowd and all these people bring.”
Leclerc said: “I think Mercedes turned up the engine a little bit and they were so good in the corners, which we know we need to work on.”
It was Mercedes’ 64th front row lockout of the grid for a Grand Prix.
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Professor Helen Colhoun
Professor Helen Colhoun holds the AXA Research Fund endowed Chair in Medical Informatics and Life Course Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh within the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) where she leads the Diabetes Medical Informatics and Epidemiology programme.
Helen joined the University of Edinburgh in 2016 having previously held tenured professorial posts in epidemiology at the University of Dundee, University College London and University College Dublin. She also holds an honorary Consultant post in Public Health in the National Health Service. Professor Colhoun’s epidemiological and clinical trials research have impacted on and been cited in clinical guidelines internationally and in national policy for diabetes.
Professor Colhoun’s current research programme uses large scale population based approaches to further understanding of the pathogenesis and means of prevention of diabetes complications. In particular it uses electronic health data to model the risk of diabetes complications and avails of linkage to biobanks to generate and examine the utility of other high dimensional data including molecular and ‘omics data for prediction.
Professor Colhoun leads the large Scottish Diabetes Research Network Type 1 Bioresource research collaboration. She is a member of the Diabetes UK Research Committee, co-Chairs the Wellcome Trust Science Interview Panel and is a member of the Wellcome Trust Science Strategy Advisory Group.
Helen’s email address is: Helen.colhoun@igmm.ed.ac.uk
A list of Prof Colhoun’s publications can be found at: http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/helen-colhoun(363ef314-73a8-4d3a-9fc0-0c6a6db62164)/publications.html
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EPSRC Reference: GR/S18120/01
Title: Adaptive Optics Assisted Optical Coherence Tomography for Retinal Imaging
Principal Investigator: Podoleanu, Professor A
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Starts: 15 August 2003 Ends: 14 November 2006 Value (£): 196,659
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The research will evaluate the compatibility of two technologies, namely Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Adaptive Optics (AO) applied to the eye. If such compatibility can be established, then an instrument incorporating both techniques could provide images of the eye fundus with much improved depth and transversal resolution than the existing instruments. The overall aim of this research proposal is to develop a new imaging system for the eye combining the principles of OCT and AO to enhance the imaging quality of the OCT system. The research will be centred around a complete functional dual channel OCT/confocal imaging system for the retina, installed on a chin rest developed during previous and current research in the group. An existing system will be redesigned to allow for the incorporation of a phase modulator in the OCT channel and for AO elements such as a Shack-Hartman wave-front sensor and of a wave-front corrector. The AO elements and systems will be assembled, tested and finally incorporated into the system. The mutual interaction between the OCT and the AO elements will be assessed along with the performances of the two channels. This will enable protocols to be devised for the operation of the dual channel OCT/confocal instrument in such a way to make the most of benefits gained by incorporating the AO elements.
Organisation Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk
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Shares of AEterna Zentaris stock opened at $3.02 on Thursday. AEterna Zentaris has a one year low of $1.29 and a one year high of $5.57. The stock has a market capitalization of $45.21 million, a P/E ratio of 12.08 and a beta of 1.34.
AEterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS) (TSE:AEZ) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May 7th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.14) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.04 by ($0.18). The firm had revenue of $0.04 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.20 million. AEterna Zentaris had a negative net margin of 666.76% and a negative return on equity of 328.95%. On average, equities analysts anticipate that AEterna Zentaris will post 1.71 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Jane Street Group LLC bought a new position in shares of AEterna Zentaris in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $30,000. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC bought a new position in shares of AEterna Zentaris in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $66,000. Acadian Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of AEterna Zentaris by 27.2% in the fourth quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 45,049 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $133,000 after acquiring an additional 9,640 shares in the last quarter. Virtu Financial LLC bought a new position in shares of AEterna Zentaris in the first quarter valued at approximately $179,000. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its holdings in shares of AEterna Zentaris by 232.8% in the first quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 110,078 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $512,000 after acquiring an additional 77,000 shares in the last quarter. 13.67% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
AEterna Zentaris Company Profile
Aeterna Zentaris Inc, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing and commercializing pharmaceutical therapies for treating oncology, endocrinology, and women's health. Its commercial product is the Macrilen, a ghrelin receptor agonist that stimulates the secretion of growth hormone by binding to the GHSR-1a, a ghrelin receptor, which is used for endocrinology and oncology indications.
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Category Archives: Occupations
Ticker september 18-24
By hambacherforst 09/18/2018 09/27/2018 Actions, Dates, Deforestation, Forest Walks, Mobilization, Occupations, Press, Repression, Solidarity, Ticker
deutsch | español | français
See also the twitter accounts: @HambiBleibt @HambiEA #HambacherForst #HambiBleibt
Videostreams: @anettselle Videos von gestern: @MKreutzfeldt
September 25th and later.
20:19 Current status Kleingartenverein: Last machines are withdrawing. All tree house remains are removed. One tree house is still standing with several people and sporadic people on trusses / trees. Police with a floodlight installation and about 50 cops on site.
19:50 Police announce that they will be closing time for today in KGV.
19:29 In Kleingartenverein still eviction with floodlight in progress.
18:57 The blocked trains run again since about 5:30 pm. Eleven activists were detained. People are already waiting for them and others in front of the GeSa Aachen. Overall, the coal trains were blocked for about 8 hours.
18:43 In Kleingartenverein now 2 lifting platforms. After Dialektik now also Jelka vacated, accompanied by accordion music and vocals. In Rentnerglück (pensioner’s luck), the sunset is enjoyed in spite of everything.
18:43 Cops retire behind the safe barrier tape. Cheers from the occupation in Lorien. more…
Forest-walk this Sunday (23rd September), or any day!
By hambacherforst 09/18/2018 09/20/2018 Backgrounds, Deforestation, Forest Walks, Occupations, Repression, Solidarity, Standard
Every person has a right to experience nature, see the trees, feel the leaf-covered ground under their feet, and hear the calm ambiance of the forest. However, in the 12,000 year old Hambach Forest, the police are making it hard for nature-lovers young and old, to do so.
The whole area in and around the Hambach forest has been officially declared as a “danger-zone”, giving the forces of the state the right to ID-control and search every person entering the area, and some people have been forced to leave the area “prohibited to return” for up to several months. more…
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT – 15.09.18
By hambacherforst 09/15/2018 09/16/2018 Actions, Dates, Deforestation, excavator occupations, Mobilization, Oaktown, Occupations, Press, Repression, Solidarity, Standard
EVICTION CONTINUES, TUNNEL REMAINS, SOLIDARITY IS ACTIVE
Today the eviction of the occupation in the 12,000 Hambach forest continued.
In the northernmost occupation, fittingly named “The North”, police brutally destroyed the homes of the climate-justice activists, which had locked themselves on in order to delay the demolition of the treehouse occupation.
As the day passed, the police ended up “successfully” evicting all of “The North”, including the treehouses Fabacea and Kontiki, and leaving the pieces of the treehouses spread all across the forest floor.
Meanwhile, the police kept working on destroying the Oaktown occupation, bringing down the treehouse Tanit, and beginning the eviction of the common-space of the occupation, the 3-floored Tower.
Besides these, the groundstructure Simona, on which the police have already worked for two days, was taken apart, despite the underground tunnelsystem, in which two people were still locked on.
The tunnel was one of the bigger stories of the day, as the police, despite trying very hard, were still not able to evict the activists from their 10 meter deep chamber.
Throughout the day, the police actively kept national as well as international press at a distance, in order to make it harder for the journalists to give a proper picture of the brutal destruction, and give the activists a voice. Despite this, journalists were able to spread information on the process of the largest police-action in the history of NRW.
Already early in the morning, news about an apparent solidarity action at the Niederaußem coal-power-plant reached us. Here activists erected a tripod, with the banner saying “Hambi bleibt!” (Hambi stays!), and locked on to a conveyor-belt transporting lignite, as well as occupying 3 diggers. This successfully led to the power-plant being brought down to around 20% of its normal capacity.
In and around the occupation, solidarity was also clear to be seen.
Here the action-group Aktion Unterholz arrived with several hundred motivated people, some breaking police-lines and entering the forest, shouting political slogans in support of the occupation, which could be heard by people in the trees, enduring the siege of the police. The action of Aktion Unterholz made a statement against the absurd police-presence, with reference to the city of Chemnitz, where police weeks ago weren’t able to handle extreme-right protesters hunting down immigrants. “Where were you in Chemnitz?!”
Following the example of the last days of eviction, the violent repression directed towards the climate-justice activists was strong.
During the action of Aktion Unterholz, police-officers brutally beat and arrested people, harassed journalists, and even used pepper-spray against demonstrators.
It is estimated that around 30 people were brought to the pre-charge detention centre in Aachen, were supporters outside were awaiting their release, with music, coffee and cake.
Most people brought into the pre-charge detention centre are released within 24 hours.
However, in connection to the eviction of a tripod in the occupied Hambach forest on September 13th, one person was brought into custody jail, for an undefined amount of time. Read more about Andrea (“UP3”) on the blog of ABC Rhineland (https://abcrhineland.blackblogs.org/).
Responsible for the continued violence against activists, journalists and nature, is interior-minister of NRW Herbert Reul (CDU). Despite the wide environmental movement, and the German plans for coal phase-out, Herbert Reul continues to protect the interests of RWE and the coal-lobby with the weapons of the state!
The struggle here continues, and is stronger every day. Although the situation here is tough, we are looking forward to experience individual and collective action of support and solidarity in NRW, Germany, Europe, and all over the world!
Hambi stays, today and forever!
Interim status of the forest clearing
By hambacherforst 09/15/2018 10/21/2018 Deforestation, Occupations, Repression
September 15 – Here again the current state, which was last passed from the forest:
Today the tree houses „Fabacea“ and „Kontiki“ as well as the Skypod (platform hanging free in ropes) in the barrio „Norden“ were evacuated. So there is no longer this barrio, but quite a lot of new anger. One of the expelled residents lodged a lawsuit against the destruction of their living space with our solidary lawyer Christian Mertens; Mertens is ready to support even more residents and others with such a lawsuit. (Specification of personal details required.)
In addition, a drivable passage was cleared between the barrios „Beechtown“ and „Cozytown“ north of the meadow. There were only footpaths so far.
Today (September 15), the barricades were cleared between the gravel pit of Collas and the central crossroads in the forest called „Jesus Point“. Firstly, this means further access to the forest and, secondly, it is particularly threatening for the barrio „Kleingartenverein“ (allotment garden) near the gravel pit.
Yesterday, the half done treehouse ‘Amagir’ had been evicted and got destroied in the barrio „Norden“.
Since yesterday there is a driveable track from the main path to the Barrios “Oaktown” and “Gallien”. They end at the tree house “Mona” (Oakt.) Or between “Tower” and “Paradise” (Gallien). Every aisle they hit through the forest means tree felling. It is enough! Gallien reports 40 felled trees. To cover that up, stumps and roots were torn out and the holes were filled with sand. However, evidently there was no eviction in Gallien.
Yesterday in Oaktown the tree houses Pyra, Mona and Stube were evicted. From the cabin Simona the roof was removed, the rest of the hut seems to stand still. There are still two people in the tunnel under the hut. The rest of Oaktown stands (i.e., Floki, Tower, Mouse-House, Nest), the Skypod “Raste” and the low tree house “Hundehütte” (also called Anna Campbell) near “Simona”, there is currently no information.
PRESS RELEASE – 11.09.18
By hambacherforst 09/11/2018 09/11/2018 Actions, Backgrounds, Deforestation, General, Occupations, Press, Repression, Standard
ON THE POSSIBILITY OF “SECURITY STRIPS”, AND AN ALLEGED MOLOTOV ATTACK
The police forces of NRW, it seems, are using every excuse they can, in order to legitimize their destructive escalation in the 12.000 year old Hambacher Forst.
Information has reached us, that the police is considering cutting of so-called “security strips” (clearing meter-wide strips of underwood) on both sides of the L276, a.k.a. the Secu-Road, despite the formerly announced cutting-stop lasting until October 14th.
The background for their decision to cut hundreds of square-meters is an alleged attack on RWE cutting equipment, with rocks and a “molotov-cocktail”, early morning September 10th.
The evidence on the alleged “molotov”-attack is however disputable.
A journalist which was present at the so-called “crime scene” shortly after explains:
“On the ground was some kind of liquid, but there were no glass-shards, no bottles, or any other containers to be seen. Usually when the police is taking pictures of a crime-scene, they don’t remove evidence, but here was nothing to be found.”
The extravagant reporting of the alleged attack, which led only to superficial damages on the RWE equipment, and no one wounded, serves only as a distraction in the debate, from who are the biggest perpetrators here: energy-giant RWE and the state of NRW, led by interior minister Herbert Reul (CDU).
In the row of violent attacks in and around the Hambach Forest occupation, it is clear which party ways the heaviest. Until now the police presence have led to several attacks on activists, supporters, as well as media workers, including the driver of a mobile kitchen being threatened with a gun, and a peaceful activist being brought to the hospital with a broken arm.
Responsible for this violence is the interior minister of the state of NRW, Herbert Reul (CDU), who uses the weapons of the state, to protect the interests of energy-giant RWE, and the coal lobby, while attacking the civil rights of free protest, free assembly and free movement.
Any and all attacks on RWE, and their state-sponsored protectors, is therefore also written in the context of self-defense, against RWEs destruction of nature, living-spaces, as well as the global climate, and against the brutal violence of the police, on civil protest and the whole climate justice movement.
Although not all parts of the movement for the preservation of the forest, and the immediate phase-out of coal agree to the militancy used by some autonomous activists, it is clear that the tactical diversity within the movement has strong value, and is not only legitimate, but necessary in the fight to protect the Hambach Forest.
By hambacherforst 09/07/2018 09/08/2018 Dates, Deforestation, Occupations, Press, Repression
Evictions going on, Day X was proclaimed
Today, the state police of NRW continued the destructive preparation(destroying of soil structures and barricades) of the forest for the upcoming evictions. The police stormed the forest at 8 am in order to cut walking ropes and bridges between trees and to isolate tree houses this way.
In the subsequent attempt to destroy the stilt construction “Simona”, a hazel tree was felled by RWE workers in the middle of “Oaktown”.
In reaction to the felling of the first tree, the Action Alliance proclaimed “Day X”, the crossing of the so-called “red line”.
Shortly after the proclamation of Day X, which was spread all over Germany and even the world, police left the forest. Although the soil structures all were destroyed, the activists now had the opportunity to move freely again and rebuild structures.
The proclamation of Day X marked the beginning of a new phase in the struggle for the 12,000 year old Hambach Forest. Hundreds of activists will join this struggle tomorrow, not least through the support of “Aktion Unterholz”, which promised to launch a weekend of resistance to support the Hambach Forest in the form of mass actions of civil disobedience. They will break police lines and block RWE and police equipment.
Despite the high likelihood that the police will be present again tomorrow, there is a chance they will restrain themselves. In this case Aktion Unterholz will support the fight in other forms, by helping to rebuild barricades and soil structures.
At 3:00 pm, the various participating organizations of the Action Alliance held a press conference to communicate the situation to regional, national, as well as international media.
They criticize the violent action of the police forces, as well as the protection of the interests of the coal and capital giant RWE. They condemn the Interior Minister of NRW, Herbert Reul (CDU) for ordering these actions.
Furthermore Ende Gelände presented their new action plan for late October, which includes lock-ons this year, reflecting their response to the increasingly extreme situation in the struggle for the Hambach Forest.
While the 6 activists who were arrested on September 5 are back in freedom, the first trial day for the case “Kim Neuland” started in the Düren district court. The case concerns the arrest and 17-day detention of activist Maya (known as “Kim Neuland”) on 17 December 2016, in connection with the resistance against the cutting of the Hambach Forest. The trial will continue on September 14th.
The repression against the climate-justice activists is going on, who are fighting for the preservation of the forest, and against the capitalist extraction of dirty lignite. But as long as the felling of the forest is not stopped forever and the fossil-fueled capitalist exploitation of the planet continues, the resistance will continues as well!
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT 06.09.18
By hambacherforst 09/06/2018 09/07/2018 Actions, Blutbuchingen, Deforestation, Forest Walks, General, Oaktown, Occupations, Press, Solidarity
TREEHOUSES BEING EVICTED, TREES CUT, TODAY MARKS DAY X
The polices forces of NRW have currently begun the eviction of treehouses in the Hambach Forest occupation. They will now be violently removing activists and destroying the infrastructure of the occupation, in order to prepare for RWEs continued clearing of the 12.000 year old Hambach Forest.
In this way Herbert Reul (CDU), interior minister of the state of Northrhine-Westphalia, is actively attacking climate justice and democratic civil rights, in support of fossil-fuel giant RWE and the coal-lobby, clearly showing the corruption inherent in the capitalist system.
With the eviction of the first tree houses, the Hambach Forest occupation, alongside several action-alliances (including Ende Gelände, Aktion Unterholz, and Buirer Für Buir) are calling out: Day X is here, and a new phase of the struggle has begun.
In the next days, while RWE employees, with support from the hired soldiers of the German state, attempt to evict the occupation, hundreds of people will join the forest struggle, in order to protect the climate justice protest-camp, and there are many ways to take part. See the text “How do I become active?” for more information.
Leila, an activist from the occupied forest, says: “This is the time for action. RWE wants the protest silenced, the activists imprisoned, the forest cut, and the German state is spending millions of euros in order to support this wish. This capitalist corruption is NOT to be accepted, and we will continue struggling until the last tree is cut, and beyond!”
Tagged day x, deforestation, eviction, police, Solidarity, violence
Press announcement: 05.09.2018
By hambacherforst 09/05/2018 09/05/2018 Dates, General, Occupations, Press
Invitation to press conference on Day X
Since August 26th the Hambach Forest has been in the crosshair of a massive police action, and we have reason to believe that an eviction of the Hambach Forest occupation soon could be a reality.
While thousands right-extremists in Chemnitz are hunting refugees and migrants, the Hambach Forest will be subject to one of the largest police actions that the state of NRW has ever seen. The lines are being crossed, and the State and police are undermining civil rights and democracy, in the name of the capitalist system.
The Hambach Forest, a forest that has existed since the end of the last iceage and for the last 6 years has been occupied by activists, has by now become a symbol of resistance.
The protest points its finger at the people who put profit before sustainability and social justice.
We want to point out and dismantle the extraction of brown-coal (lignite), and its absurd destruction of landscapes, villages and the environment.
Day X: on the day where the first tree in the Hambach Forest falls, we, the action-alliances that fight for the preservation of the forest, will hold a press conference.
Leila, an activist from the occupation, says about the current situation:
“The state of NRW is right now directing its violence against the people protecting nature and fighting climate change. This is an attack on the whole movement for climate justice, and clearly shows the reactionary face of the capitalist state.”
It is still unclear how the police will act on Day X, but we will keep you informed when the time comes.
Please direct press contact towards:
press_hambachforset@nullriseup.net
Further actors of the press conference:
Aktion Unterholz
Emil Freytag, 0177 5944676, presse_unterholz@nullriseup.net, aktion-unterholz.org
Ende Gelände!
Karolina Drzewo, 0152 04560800,presse@nullende-gelaende.org, ende-gelaende.org
Buirer für Buir,
Andreas Büttgen, 0173 5146141, andreas.buettgen@nullbuirerfuerbuir.de
MEADOW OFFERED FOR SALE TO RWE FOR 80 BILLION EURO
By hambachforest 05/17/2018 05/17/2018 Meadow Occupation, Occupations
ONLY 80,000,000,000 EURO!!!!
State of NRW has notified the owner of the Meadow that it is to be sold to RWE Power AG through expropriation and imminent domain.
Purchase price offered is 12,500 Euro.
Asking purchase price: 80 billion Euro.
RWE’s purchase price offer was determined on the basis of the value that the meadow would have if used for agricultural purposes (= fictitious value).
The purchase price claim of the signatory (= K.C.) is measured according to the profits RWE generates from the ownership of the meadow (= real value) over the term of the opencast mine. These profits amount to a total of around 4 billion euros per year x term of the opencast mines of 20 years = 80 billion euros. These profits are generated at RWE Power AG.
http://www.radioerft.de/erft/re/1501302/news/rhein-erft-kreis
most article behind a paywall of this local paper frequently engaging in anti-Hambi Green-Scare propaganda:
http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/region/tagebau-hambach-eine-wiese-fuer-80-milliarden-euro-1.1896785?refid=256065975
Second Day of ZAD under Police Attack
By hambachforest 04/11/2018 08/06/2018 Mobilization, Occupations, Repression, Solidarity
For the second day ZAD NDDL came under police attack this Tuesday. Beginning at 5am over 2000 of cops with at least two tanks started trying to breach the barricades on the West End of the Zad. Yet with the whole day of massive amounts of tear gas and flash bangs being used the day was mostly stellmate as cops stood in one place holding people back as the equipment cleared out 4 locations: No Name, Chèvrerie, Port and Tower that were already overrun by the cops on Monday as they finished destroying the structures and taking out the remnants of structures destroyed Monday. more…
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'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
chrisaldrich 21 Feb 2019
Historians call it the “conquest pattern”, which unfolds in three phases: legalistic measures to provide the invasion with a gloss of justification, a declaration of territorial claims, and the founding of a town to legitimate the declaration.
conquest pattern
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theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook
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barad_posthumanist_performativity_toward_an_understanding_of_how_matter_comes_to_matter.pdf
kmurphy1 30 Jan 2019
ausal relationship
Is it true that post humanism takes issue with the cause and effect pattern? In the sense that these two things are separate entities? (Referring to Burke's belief that we are naturally divided from other people)
Burke Cause and Effect Pattern
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scripting.com scripting.com
Where "fear is frozen fun" came from
almereyda 28 Oct 2018
A variant is useful in standards work, where I ask collaborators to search for the worst possible name for something, in order to avoid long arguments about which is best. You can have a good laugh when someone invokes the "worst is best" rule, and get on with the real work of working together.
Almost like a pattern. Start off with something, anything, and improve from there.
worst is best pattern
worst is best
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How to implement a type-safe enum pattern in C#
bogste 10 Mar 2018
type-safe enum pattern
a.k.a. Strongly typed enum pattern
enum pattern programming typesafe strongly typed Java C# C-Sharp CSharp
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JTB: The Java Tree Builder Homepage
gylpm 03 Mar 2018
Visitor design pattern
访问者设计模式
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Araby – Down the Rabbit Hole
seenataalomi 03 Oct 2017
handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girdled at half its height by a gallery. Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness.
There is a stark contrast to his previous trip to the market:
"I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes."
her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
The boy/narrator is obviously in love, yet he never says the girl's name. She is initially introduced as "Mangan's sister", and afterwards she is only mentioned by pronouns. An essay by Richard J. Gerber, titled "Joyce's 'Araby' and the Mystery of Mangan's Sister", explores the varying views on the significance of omitting her name:
William Bysshe Stein describes "the young boy’s adoration of Mangan’s sister, and his reluctance to speak her name, as a form of religious devotion: 'This awe and reverence literally manifest an impulse toward deification". Judaic tradition states that God's name, Yahveh, was so holy "'that it was sacrilege...to pronounce it'".
Ben L. Collins believes that Joyce is making a joke about Jesus Christ. He "cites Joyce’s well-known allusion to Irish poet James Clarence Mangan (and his poems about love, religion, and nationality)...[Collins] concludes that 'The role of Mangan’s sister as deity is made known, if it cannot establish itself in any other way, comically, for one little knows Joyce who feels he is unaware of or incapable of using Mangan’s initials—J. C.'" In other words, J. C. Mangan shares the same initials as Jesus Christ.
The essay by Gerber examines these interpretations, but he ultimately comes to a different conclusion. J. C. Mangan had a sister; she is mentioned in his autobiography, as well as a biography about him. However, her name is never known. Moreover, "Joyce also adapted other significant portions of J. C. Mangan’s early life story for use in 'Araby'...Joyce’s appropriation (and fictionalization) of details taken from Mangan’s life explains Mangan’s sister’s missing name in 'Araby' because she is also nameless in the biographies of J. C. Mangan and in his autobiographical writings".
The stories in Dubliners incorporate complex layers of meaning into straightforward plot lines.
source: https://muse-jhu-edu.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/article/605563
She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent.
The narrator reveled in the moment when the "Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free". Now the convent/church is preventing the girl he loves from being free.
In front of me was a large building which displayed the magical name.
Earlier, Mangan's sister told him it would be a "splendid bazaar"; even "The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me". That was in his imagination, but now he's in reality.
we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness.
The boy and his friends are still ordinary kids. They like to be adventurous, run through the avenues, and let their imaginations run wild. Later on, the boy's interests evolve, as do the interests of all children as they grow up.
Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free
"Araby" is filled with religious allusions; religion was important in Ireland. This passage could be interpreted in a number of ways. In one sense, the boys being set "free" could mean that they are finally able to enjoy being kids. They are literally released from the rigid structure of school, and now they can do what boys do: play. Furthermore, Khorand observes that it is possible that the school "constrains and limits [the boys] so much more with it's didactic religious teachings".
source: http://epiphany.ius.edu.ba/index.php/epiphany/article/view/109/106
ways of reading pattern
I could interpret these signs.
It seems his uncle likes to drink, and the boy knows what he sees. He may be used to seeing his uncle drunk, or perhaps he is able to glean new information from the world because he is spending less time with his friends and more time at home with the adults. After all, he doesn't seem to go out and play anymore, and he was just sitting with Mrs. Mercer during tea-time while she gossiped at him. He may still be a boy, but he has some insight into the world of adults.
I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room.
In The Egoist, Ezra Pound asserts that "Araby" "is much better than a 'story', it is a vivid waiting". Indeed, the boy in "Araby" is often waiting for that which he desires the most. His thoughts are consumed by the magical bazaar called Araby: "I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days...I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play". Later on, while waiting for his uncle, he is forced to "endure the gossip of the tea-table. The meal was prolonged beyond an hour and still my uncle did not come". He is repeatedly waiting for the moment that he believes will bring him happiness.
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I much prefer this nomenclature especially since it allows me to add Christopher Alexander to the mix. He argued that there are machine systems and growing systems. Or perhaps we can think of the distinction as between engineered and rhizomatic? Or using James Scott's terms: legible v illegible.
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Category: Trade Law
No implied term qualifying free standing demurrage provision in sale contract
On January 12, 2019 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Contract Law, Implied Terms, Sale of Goods, Trade Law, UncategorizedLeave a comment
In Gunvor SA v CruGas Yemen Ltd [2018] EWHC 2061 (Comm) a term contract of sale was made for the sale of gasoline by 12 monthly consignments cif Hodeidah. The buyer was named as CruGas Ltd but the claimant argued that the contract was made with CruGas Yemen Ltd, and that it had been unaware that within the relevant group there was a Cayman Islands company named CruGas Ltd. The claimant obtained performing vessels from a separate entity within its group of companies, Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd (Clearlake), under a long-term contract of affreightment on an amended Asbatankvoy form. It claimed demurrage totalling $18m under the sale contract and claimed against CruGas Yemen Ltd and CruGas Ltd in the alternative. The defendants denied liability for demurrage on three grounds. First, the demurrage claims were time-barred by reason of a demurrage time bar provision in the COA. Second, a term should be implied into the sale contract that the claimant was required to prove the demurrage rates claimed were “in line with the market rate”. Third, the claimant had to prove that it paid the demurrage sums it claimed under the sale contract.
Phillips J first found that the contract had been made with CruGas Yemen Ltd, and then proceeded to reject all three of the buyer’s arguments. First, it was established in OK Petroleum AB v Vitol Energy SA [1995] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 160 that words of general incorporation in a sales contract concerning demurrage provisions in a separate charter did not bring in terms ancillary to the accrual of demurrage, such as time bars relating to the presentation of demurrage claims. Second, there was no justification for the implication of the term contended for, which was neither necessary for the business efficacy of the sale contract, nor would give effect to the obvious but unexpressed intentions of the parties at the time they contracted. In any event, expert evidence from a chartering expert, was that the demurrage rates were all consistent with the market, insofar as such a thing could be said. Third, the demurrage provision under the sale contract was free-standing and not an indemnity.
Remedies for delivery without production of the bill of lading
On December 12, 2018 December 12, 2018 By Professor Andrew TettenbornIn Carriage of Goods, Delivery of Goods, Sea Carriage, Tort Law, Trade LawLeave a comment
A case in the CA of some interest today. Imagine carriers or forwarding agents have delivered goods to a buyer without getting payment for them. No point in suing the buyer in 99% of such cases: and often carriers and forwarding agents will be men of straw too (remember in addition that P&I clubs won’t sub up for this sort of thing). But had you thought of suing the rich man behind the buyer who sweet-talked the forwarding agent or carrier into letting the goods go without payment? You hadn’t? It’s actually a classic case, in most situations, of inducing breach of contract: a point confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Michael Fielding Wolff v Trinity Logistics [2018] EWCA Civ 2765, upholding Sara Cockerill QC at first instance. Happy hunting.
Rotterdam Rules in Cameroon’s hat-trick of international trade conventions.
On October 18, 2018 October 18, 2018 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Carriage of Goods, Contract Law, Multimodal Carriage, Sale of Goods, Sea Carriage, Trade Law, UncategorizedLeave a comment
Just over a year ago on 11 October 2017 Cameroon ratified or acceded to three UNCITRAL Conventions.
Cameroon ratified the Rotterdam Rules. There are now four states that have ratified. Sixteen more to go before the Convention comes into force. At the current rate we’ll be there in 2058.
Cameroon acceded to the he United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) (CISG) which comes into force for Cameroon on 1 November 2018.
Cameron acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (2005) which came into force for Cameroon on 1 May 2018.
Carriers and bills of lading: an unexpected duty to arbitrate.
On July 27, 2018 By Professor Andrew TettenbornIn Arbitration, Carriage of Goods, Sea Carriage, Trade LawLeave a comment
An important point for bill of lading holders arose a couple of days ago in the Commercial Court. Everyone knows that you have to watch your back when becoming the holder of a bill of lading, in case you end up with not only the right to sue the carrier but also the duty to foot the bill for an insolvent shipper’s liabilities.
Traditionally the teaching has been: you are safe unless you take or demand delivery of the goods or make a claim against the carrier. It follows that if you are pretty sure you never did any of those things but nevertheless receive a demand from the carrier, you can smugly respond “Nothing doing. Sue me if you dare.” So far so good. But what if you receive a demand for arbitration pursuant to an arbitration clause contained in the bill? Can you still say “See you in court”, or are you now bound to arbitrate the claim, with the risk of losing by default if you do nothing? This was the point that arose in Sea Master Shipping Inc v Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1902 (Comm), where Popplewell J preferred the latter answer.
A bank financed A, a seller of Argentine extracted toasted soya meal, who voyage-chartered a vessel to deliver it to Moroccan buyers. The transaction was a disaster for A, with the deal and a series of replacements falling through and the vessel sailing round North Africa and the Mediterranean, rather like Captain Hendrick’s Flying Dutchman, in search of someone somewhere to love the cargo. Big demurrage liabilities built up. The bank meanwhile acquiesced in the issue of a switch bill with a LMAA arbitration clause incorporated, naming it as consignee. A being (one assumes) insolvent, the owners claimed against the bank and claimed arbitration, alleging the bank was liable either as an original party to the switch bill, or as a transferee of it.
The arbitrators declined jurisdiction, on the basis that there was no evidence the bank had become liable on the bill under s.3 of COGSA 1992 and thus that the bank was not bound by the arbitration clause. However, on a s.67 application Popplewell J disagreed. The arbitration agreement was, he said, separate from the rights and liabilities under the bill itself: as soon as the bank fell to be treated as a party to the bill under s.2 of the Act, it was bound fully by any arbitration provision in it. It followed that the case had to be remitted to the arbitrators with a direction to continue with their hearing of the claim.
A result which, one suspects, will please neither banks nor traders, since it deprives both of the advantage of inertia: but there you are. At least carriers will be happy.
Of sales, bills of exchange and arbitration
On May 10, 2018 By Professor Andrew TettenbornIn Contract Law, Credit and Security, Sale of GoodsLeave a comment
Picken J today revisited an old chestnut in arbitration law. Suppose you sell goods or services and draw on the buyer for the price (yes, some people still do this), and have a standard arbitration clause referring to “all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Contract”. Does the arbitration clause cover a claim on the bill of exchange, as against one on the underlying contract of sale? Just this happened in Uttam Galva Steels Ltd v Gunvor Singapore Pte Ltd [2018] EWHC 1098 (Comm), where the buyer made a s.67 application challenging an LME arbitration tribunal that had said yes and had then given judgment against it on the bill. In fact the buyer had introduced the point out of time, so the point was a non-starter. But even without that it would, said Picken J, have failed. On the basis of modern arbitration practice as evidenced in Fiona Trust v Privalov [2007] UKHL 40; [2007] 4 All E.R. 951 parties should not lightly be taken to have agreed to bifurcated dispute resolution according to whether the action was being brought on the bill or on the contract. Dicta in Nova (Jersey) Knit Ltd v Kammgarn Spinnerei GmbH [1977] 1 WLR 713, 731 and the Singapore decision in Rals International Pte Ltd v Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza SpA [2016] SGCA 53 failed to convince him otherwise.
On balance it is suggested that his Lordship was right. It is true (as he admitted) that the result is that those who sell under bills of exchange may inadvertently give up the right they would otherwise have to summary judgment on the bill with few if any questions asked under the ‘pay now, sue later’ principle. But summary judgment is equally available under the underlying contract, and the fact that this may be precluded by an arbitration clause never seems to have unduly worried anyone.
If the claim is brought on the bill by an indorsee who is a holder in due course, then presumably the result will be different: the holder here can hardly be bound by any arbitration clause — as indeed was held in Rals International Pte Ltd v Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza SpA [2016] SGCA 53, where the claimant was the indorsee of a promissory note. But this need not detain us.
Meanwhile, the sensible reaction for a commercial lawyer is a simple one: say what you want. Where payment is or may be made by a bill of exchange, it is hardly rocket science to draft the arbitration clause to as to embrace “all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Contract, including cases where the claim is brought under a bill of exchange or promissory note”, or (if you prefer) “all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Contract, save for cases where the claim is brought under a bill of exchange, promissory note or similar instrument”. You may do students of commercial law out of a bit of technical learning, but you sure will save your clients a good deal of heartache and very possibly money.
Opening a letter of credit on time. Condition or innominate term?
On April 17, 2018 April 16, 2018 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Sale of Goods, Trade Law, UncategorizedLeave a comment
Is the buyer’s obligation to open a letter of credit by a specified time a condition or an innominate term? The tribunal in London Arbitration 12/18 found that it was an innominate term. The sale contract of 6 September had stipulated that a letter of credit be opened within two banking days from the dated of the contract. On 8 September no letter of credit had been opened and the sellers on 9 September terminated the contract and made arrangements to return the deposit. They claimed that the buyers had repudiated the contract by failing to open a letter of credit on time.
The tribunal held that a contractual requirement for the provision of a letter of credit did not always have to be read as a condition. Although the provision of a letter of credit would frequently be a condition precedent to performing obligations under a contract, for example to load a ship (Kronos Worldwide Ltd v Sempra Oil Trading SARL [2004] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 260), that was not to be equated with a condition of a contract. A term was only to be categorised as a condition if any assumed breach of it would deprive the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract.
In the present case, where the obligation to provide a letter of credit was related to the contract date and where the first shipment date was three or more weeks later, the tribunal was not able to conclude that the obligation should be treated as a condition rather than as an innominate term.
The breach by the buyers of the innominate term could not be regarded as depriving the sellers of substantially the whole benefit of the contract. Until a letter of credit would have been issued a few days later, it deprived them of security, but the substantial benefit of the contract was the sale and the profit the sellers anticipated making.
Accordingly, it was the sellers who had been in breach by terminating the contract on 9 September.
Demurrage claim against seller. Don’t blame your buyer if you don’t pay freight due under your charter.
On January 9, 2018 January 7, 2018 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Charterparties, Sale of Goods, Trade Law, Uncategorized, Voyage Chater1 Comment
London Arbitration 2/18 give us an interesting issue on causation arising out of two related contracts, a cfr sale contract, and the charterparty made by the seller. The cfr sale contract required buyers to pay charterparty freight to sellers as soon as possible after signing bills of lading; which they failed to do. The shipowners refused to release the ‘freight prepaid’ bill of lading until freight had been paid. The consequent delay resulted in the seller incurring a liability for demurrage at the discharge port under their charterparty. The tribunal held that the sellers were not entitled to an indemnity from the buyers in respect of their demurrage liability. Despite the provisions of the sale contract, the primary obligation to pay to the owners the charterparty freight remained with the sellers, as charterers of the vessel. The sellers decided not to pay themselves the freight due to the owners and this broke any chain of causation there might have been between the buyers’ breach and the demurrage incurred by sellers under the charter. Alternatively, the sellers had failed to mitigate the damages to which the buyers’ breach exposed them and thereby incurred a liability for demurrage that could have been otherwise avoided.
Sale of goods — no need to prepare to collect something you know you won’t get
On July 7, 2017 July 7, 2017 By Professor Andrew TettenbornIn Contract Law, Sale of Goods, Trade Law1 Comment
A textbook sale of goods decision today from Carr J in Vitol S.A. v Beta Renowable Group S.A. [2017] EWHC 1734 (Comm), which nevertheless has a few lessons for the rest of us. Beta, a Spanish real estate company that had branched out into the biofuels business, agreed to sell commodity traders Vitol 4,500 tonnes of cooking-oil-derived biodiesel fob Bilbao. Vitol had to have a vessel ready to lift it by midnight Friday 1 July and to nominate the relevant vessel by midnight Monday that week.
Things then went wrong. Communications from Beta culminating on Monday afternoon made it clear there wouldn’t be any biodiesel to lift. Vitol let the nomination time pass without doing anything, said on 7 July that they accepted Beta’s repudiation, and sued for loss of profit (including would-be hedging gains — more anon). Beta declined liability. They argued, with more hope than merit, that Vitol had not accepted their repudiation until much later, and had therefore remained bound to nominate a ship on Monday and take steps for delivery; not having done so, they were (said Beta) disabled from complaining of non-delivery.
Carr J held for Vitol, reasoning thus. First, while one could accept repudiation by mere omission, Vitol had not done so by failure to nominate, since this (non) act had not been unequivocal enough. They had therefore on principle remained bound to take steps to lift the oil. Nevertheless, given that it remained abundantly clear that there was nothing to collect, it would be ridiculous to require them to go to the trouble and expense of making idle preparations to collect it.
It followed that Beta were liable for substantial damages for non-delivery, whereupon a further nice point arose. Spurning traditional value less price as old hat, Vitol sought to claim their lost resale margin, plus in addition an alleged profit they would have made on buying in gasoil futures they had sold in order to hedge the transaction. Carr J was having none of it: there was no reason to allow actual resale profits in an ordinary commodity contract, and the futures were essentially a speculation on Vitol’s own account. So Vitol had to be content with market value damages.
Three points for commodity lawyers and others.
(1) It’s good to have confirmation that to enforce a contract you have generally to show merely that you would have been ready willing and able to satisfy any conditions on your right to performance, but for the other side’s repudiation: you don’t have actually to do an entirely futile act where that would serve no purpose.
(2) Damages: courts remain wary in straightforward commodity cases of departing from the time-honoured value test in ss.50-51 of the Sale of Goods Act.
(3) Vitol will have been kicking themselves for not making it clear, when not nominating a ship, that they were specifically accepting Beta’s repudiation. One email, of negligible cost, would very likely have saved the cost of having the whole matter taken to the High Court. Solicitors for buyers and sellers, verb. sap.
Anticipatory breach and sale of blended cargo.
On April 18, 2017 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Sale of Goods, Trade Law, Uncategorized1 Comment
A victory for IISTL Member, Simon Rainey QC, leading counsel for the seller in Mena Energy DMCC v Hascol Petroleum Ltd. [2017] EWHC 262 (Comm). Disputes arose out of two sales, one of fuel oil, the other of gasoil, to an importer in Pakistan. The first shipment was of fuel oil with a maximum viscosity of 125 centistokes. The shipment required blending on the voyage to reduce its viscosity. On arrival at Karachi import was not permitted following sampling of the vessel’s tanks which showed that the cargo had a viscosity of 192.92 centistokes. The parties then agreed by telephone that the vessel would return to Fujairah where the cargo would be reloaded following further blending and would then return to Karachi. The buyer claimed that no final settlement had been reached but that the parties had merely agreed that if the vessel returned to Karachi by 26 November the existing bills of lading would continue to be used for calculating the price, but if it did not return by then the parties would revert to their rights under the original contract. The vessel returned to Karachi on 30 November and the buyer claimed damages for delay. The court held that the telephone agreement constituted a final settlement of all claims and counterclaims up to that point and that the seller merely undertook to use its best endeavours to ensure the vessel’s return to Karachi by 26 November. Even if the buyers were correct, the evidence showed that the cargo was in fact on spec at the time of the initial arrival at Karachi. The spot samples were drawn before any recirculation of the cargo had taken place. Running samples were more accurate than spot samples and hatch samples more accurate than samples drawn through the vessel’s closed sampling system.
With the second shipment, the buyers were obliged to open a letter of credit by 3 December and had failed to so. The previous day the sellers, seeing that it was clear that the buyers would fail to open the credit on time, cancelled the charterparty they had concluded for shipment. The court held that the obligation to open the credit did not depend on the existence of a charterparty, and that after 3 December, the buyer’s anticipatory breach became an actual breach for which the sellers were entitled to claim damages. In any event, the opening of a credit was a condition precedent to the seller’s obligation to supply the goods and there could be no question of the seller being in breach for failing to deliver cargo in circumstances where no letter of credit had been opened.
Shipbuilding options – worth the paper they’re written on?
On February 16, 2017 February 16, 2017 By Professor Andrew TettenbornIn Contract Law, Implied Terms, Sale of GoodsLeave a comment
Shipbuilding contracts often contain an element of “buy one, get a special offer on another”. In other words, an order for one vessel may well give the buyer an option on one or more further ships to be built at a later date. Unfortunately option provisions of this kind, can be of doubtful value, as Teekay Tankers found to its cost this week. As part of an order for four vessels from Korean builders STX, the parties included a clause aimed at giving an option on a further dozen vessels as follows:
“The Delivery Dates for each [of the] Optional Vessels shall be mutually agreed upon at the time of [Teekay’s] declaration of the relevant option … but [STX] will make best efforts to have a delivery within 2016 for each [of the] First Optional Vessels, within 2017 for each [of the] Second Optional Vessels and within 2017 for each [of the] Third Optional Vessels.”
STX went into Korean-style Chapter 11 bankruptcy, failed to build the original four ships and unsurprisingly repudiated the extra options. For the purpose of establishing its rights in the Korean administration (since recognised in England under the Model Law on Cross-border Insolvency), Teekay with the court’s permission got an arbitration award in respect of the original vessels, and in Teekay Tankers Ltd v STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co Ltd [2017] EWHC 253 (Comm) sued for damages for the repudiation of the options. It failed in the latter. Although it was clear that both parties had intended the option provision to have legal effect, and also that the courts disliked striking down a clause for uncertainty, this was simply too vague, since there was no way of establishing what criteria were to apply if Teekay gave notice to exercise the options and the parties could not agree dates. Cutting through a lot of verbiage, the conclusion appears to be simply this: to be sure of being able to enforce options of this kind, there is little alternative to providing for some kind of arbitration or third-party decision to be binding in the absence of some other agreement. Unpalatable, to be sure, especially to the yards, which need to maintain flexibility: but there seems little choice in the matter.
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Parasound A31 Three Channel Power Amplifier
By Andrew Robinson | March 25, 2013
Since its founding in 1981, Parasound has become one of the industry's most venerable brands, offering scores of products that historically have garnered high praise amongst discerning enthusiasts, though the wares have always been offered at reasonable prices. Halo, Parasound's, well, halo or flagship line of products was introduced in the late Nineties, though it continues the company's commitment to excellence to this day. The newest product, the A31 three-channel amplifier reviewed here, is a first for Parasound. Parasound has never offered a three-channel amplifier and, while three-channel amps are nothing new within the industry, fans of the company are probably asking themselves (and Parasound) what took so long.
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Three-channel amplifiers were all the rage a few years ago, but then sort of faded away. They didn't go extinct, but they fell out of favor as the "it" solution. I suppose as money became tight, people went back to all-in-one solutions, i.e., five- and seven-channel amplifiers or AV receivers. The purpose of a three-channel amp is to bring multi-channel capability to an existing two-channel system. What I mean by this is that a manufacturer of a three-channel amplifier, in this case Parasound, assumes that the customer has an existing stereo amp (or two mono amplifiers) that he or she likes and simply wishes to add amplifier channels for a center channel and surround speakers. For a Parasound customer, this could mean that he or she is already in possession of either a pair of JC1 monaural amplifiers or an A21 stereo amp. I don't mention the A23 stereo amplifier, because it offers up less power compared to the JC1, A21 or the A31. Another benefit of having a three-channel amp over, say, a five- or seven-channel one is that it gives you the ability to selectively power up only certain components when need be, thus saving you money at the meter. For example, let's say your home theater and two-channel system are one and the same and you use a A21 Halo amp for your left and right mains and an A31 for your center and rear channels. If you only wish to listen to music, then you needn't power up the A31 at all. Make sense? Those of you with seven-channel systems can still benefit from a three-channel amplifier, as it gives you the ability to run your front three speakers, while utilizing a pair of stereo amps for your surround and rear channels, which could be lesser amps in terms of power than what is required for your front three channels. So that is how a three-channel amplifier comes into play. The question that remains is whether the A31 is any good.
The A31 retails for $3,000, which puts it square in the mid-fi budget category, for it's not quite Emotiva/Outlaw affordable, but a far cry from Mark Levinson/Krell/Classe/McIntosh/ARC/Pass prices. From the outside, the A31 looks every bit a Parasound Halo product, clad in its trademark brushed silver facade, though Halo products are now being offered in black, too. The A31 utilizes the same chassis as its fellow multi-channel and stereo siblings (including the JC1), measuring 17.25 inches wide by nearly eight inches tall (with feet) and just over 19 inches deep. It's hefty, too, weighing a respectable but not unmanageable 65 pounds. The front panel features Parasound's logo on top with three small indicator lights below the THX logo and a small backlit power button resting in the far left corner. The sides of the A31 are adorned with heat sink fins that feature rounded edges, so as not to cause any physical harm to the customer or installer charged with moving the A31 into its final position. Around back, you'll find a host of input/output options, as well as a few features not commonly found on most amplifiers, budget or otherwise. Moving from left to right the first thing you'll notice are the A31's massive metal rack handles. Just inside the left handle are the A31's "Turn On Options," which include an auto/manual power switch and a 12-volt trigger. The manual switch allows you to set the A31's auto power up feature to either auto (which has a sensitivity dial), manual (using the front-mounted power button) or via a 12-volt trigger. There is even a loop out option for daisy-chaining several amps together if you so desire. Each of the channel inputs are neatly arranged, well spaced and labeled 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Each features XLR as well as RCA input options that are selectable via a small toggle switch. To the left of the input options rests a gain knob that gives you control, plus or minus 6dB off normal or THX reference, to help level match the A31 to other amplifiers - presumably ones that fall outside of the Halo lineup of products. This is a decidedly pro feature, one I'll discuss in a moment. Below the input options rest a pair of five-way binding posts, one pair for each channel. Along the far right side of the back panel rests a large master on/off switch as well as a standard AC power receptacle.
Behind the scenes, the A31 is quite a brute, churning out a healthy 250 watts per channel into eight ohms and 400 watts per into four. The A31 is THX Ultra2-certified as well. The A31's internal circuitry was designed by none other than John Curl, a longtime Parasound collaborator and designer extraordinaire, with more than a few hits to his name. The A31, like all Halo-branded amplifiers, is a high-bias Class A/AB amplifier, meaning the first few watts - in this case seven - are delivered in pure Class A fashion before switching over to AB status. The signal path is direct-coupled, meaning no capacitors or inductors are used anywhere in the signal path, and is capable of full power output down to 5Hz. The A31 employs matched pairs of JFETs for its input/pre-driver stages and matched pairs of MOSFETS in its driver stage. It also utilizes eight beta-matched, 15-amp 60Hz output transistors for each channel. The A31 plays host to a large encapsulated toroid transformer (1.5 kVA) with separate, independent windings for each of its three channels. For more details on the A31's inner workings, as well as design notes, please visit the A31's product page on Parasound's website.
Like all Parasound products, the A31 comes with a full five-year parts and labor warranty in the United States and in Canada.
I received the A31 amplifier from Parasound shortly after attending the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. It arrived, along with a matching A21 two-channel amp, to serve as a personal reference in not only my review systems, but also in my in-home mastering suite. I had been a Parasound customer previously, having owned both the Halo and Classic line of products, so I was not unfamiliar with the brand or its sound.
Installing the A31 into my Sanus equipment rack was fairly straightforward, thanks to a) the A31 being of rack-mountable size and b) Parasound including rack ears with purchase to facilitate such an installation. That last part is a big deal (for me at least), as I've encountered no other brand that does this free of charge. Instead, other brands always offer rack ears as an optional extra, sometimes a costly one. I installed the A31 along the bottom of my rack with the A21 resting above, though there are three or four rack spaces between the two in order to allow for proper ventilation.
Once installed, making the requisite connections was a breeze. I connected the A31 to my Integra DHC 80.2 AV preamp, using individual runs of balanced interconnects courtesy of Monoprice. From there, I connected the A31 to a host of different loudspeakers, ranging from my trusty Tekton Design Pendragons to a complement of Jade 1 bookshelf speakers from Wharfedale. I even went so far as to use the A31 in conjunction with professional commercial cinema loudspeakers from JBL. Regardless of the speaker choice, all were connected via 12-gauge bulk speaker cable from Binary, a SnapAV company.
It should be noted that I ran the A31 both as a main amplifier and as a secondary one, meaning I used it to power my mains exclusively, as well as rear channels. When more than three channels were needed, it was always paired with my Parasound Halo A21. I found the two to be interchangeable in terms of sonics, i.e., I couldn't tell them apart.
The rest of my system was as follows: Dune-HD Max and Oppo BDP-103 as the primary source components, Behringer Feedback Destroyer feeding into a single JL Audio Fathom f110 subwoofer with parametric EQ filters from Room EQ Wizard, and a SIM2 Nero single-chip DLP projecting onto a 120-inch Acoustic4K screen from Elite Screens. I'm not big on "break-in," but I do believe amplifiers, especially those with Class A and AB topologies, do need a little bit of time to warm up, so I gave the A31 a good 30 minutes or so of just playing music at background levels before sitting down for any critical listening sessions.
Read about the performance of the Parasound A31 amplifier on Page 2.
HTR Product Rating for Parasound A31 Three Channel Power Amplifier
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Home » News » Charity » K2L launches domestic abuse awareness campaign for young people
K2L launches domestic abuse awareness campaign for young people
July 20, 2018 Charity 0
Greater Manchester’s award-winning domestic abuse awareness campaign is being taken to schools throughout the region.
#SittingRightWithYou was created by local creative agency K2L and saw a yellow sofa taken around the streets and landmarks of Manchester, to encourage people to talk about different forms of abuse.
The agency has now adapted the campaign to speak to 11-16 year olds in schools and youth organisations across Greater Manchester, as well as on social media, to raise awareness and provide support and information in an age-appropriate manner that will engage with them. The launch was held at Stretford High School last week, with the support of Greater Manchester Police and Deputy Mayor Beverley Hughes.
Scott Kennedy, MD of K2L comments: “This is obviously a hugely sensitive topic and as we are dealing with young people, it was imperative that we took a close look at all of the campaign messaging and channels used again.
“The key is to reach young people to raise the subject of domestic abuse and to let people know that they are not alone – that if needed, there is help and support. It is great to have the opportunity to work with Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the schools themselves to address these issues.”
K2L created the original campaign for the Greater Manchester Police Crime Commissioner, which included several awareness days in which the sofa itself posed challenging statements and raised questions to the general public. These events were supported by a social and consumer media campaign, which produced a thought-provoking video and linked back to a host site offering immediate, confidential support.
“It’s fantastic to be sending our yellow sofa out and about again, to reach younger people after the success and impact the original campaign had,” concludes Scott. “We’re also speaking to a number of other UK police forces, which is fantastic, as it is gently encouraging people to take the first step in recognising and talking about domestic abuse.”
Follow the conversation at #SittingRightWithYou or visit www.sittingrightwithyou to find out more.
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Teqball: The Hungarian, Football-Ping Pong Hybrid Sweeping the World Cup
Fanni Kaszás 2018.06.15.
Teqball, a new football-based sport invented by Hungarians, has made it to the Football World Cup in Russia, as the Brazilian team, who are using the game as part of their training regime, have brought it to the tournament with them.
This is not the first time the Hungarian invention, developed by two Hungarian football fanatics, former professional player Gábor Borsányi and computer scientist Viktor Huszár, has received international recognition. Last week, Prince Albert II of Monaco tried the game in his palace: together with Teqball ambassador William Gallas, who plays for both the French national team and Chelsea, the His Serene Highness played against the Hungarian inventors.
Nor was he the only famous individual connect with the new game: in 2016, Brazilian superstar footballer (and former Teqball ambassador) Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, better known as Ronaldinho, arrived in Hungary to popularize the sport and film a commercial for the Hungarian company.
Below, you can watch a previous “All-Star” event in Monaco, where brand ambassadors Luís Figo and Simão Sabrosa played against William Gallas and Christian Karembeu:
Teqball, the name for both the multifunctional sport equipment and the new, football-based sport played on it, looks like a curved ping-pong table at first sight; however, it can be used in much more ways than one may think. According to the game’s official website, it is a training tool for both professionals and amateurs to develop their technical, concentration skills, and stamina. For this reason, several professional clubs have already incorporated the use of teqball into their workout regimes, as well as three national football federations: the Brazilian, Croatian and of course the Hungarian.
Below, you can watch Neymar, Dani Alves, Philippe Coutinho and Gabriel Jesus take time out of Brazil national team training with a game of Teqball:
And be sure to check out our article on the best places to watch the World Cup in Budapest – some of the places even have Teqball, so you can try it out for yourself as well.
via teqball.com, index.hu
featured image: Hannah Mckay / Reuters
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Pro Kabaddi 2017: Patna Pirates stun Puneri Paltan, to face Bengal Warriors in second qualifierhttps://indianexpress.com/article/sports/pro-kabaddi-league/patna-pirates-stun-puneri-paltan-to-face-bengal-warriors-in-second-qualifier-4904930/
Pro Kabaddi 2017: Patna Pirates stun Puneri Paltan, to face Bengal Warriors in second qualifier
Patna Pirates set their date with Bengal Warriors in the second qualifier after defeating Puneri Paltan 42-32 in the third Eliminator.
By IANS | Updated: October 24, 2017 11:39:19 pm
Pardeep Narwal was sensational yet again as he scored 19 points to lead his team to victory.
Patna Pirates set their date with Bengal Warriors in the second qualifier after defeating Puneri Paltan 42-32 in the third Eliminator of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) at the NSCI Stadium on Tuesday.
The twist was stored for the dying stages of the match when defending champions Patna made a stunning comeback, scoring 18 points in the last six minutes to turn the tide in their favour.
Patna skipper Pardeep Narwal was sensational yet again as he scored 19 points to lead his team to victory. Pune crumbled under pressure and lost their nerve as their campaign came to a disappointing end.
Deepak Niwas Hooda scored nine points but couldn’t deliver when it mattered the most for his team. Pardeep made two successful two-point raids as Patna led 5-3 after seven minutes. He scored two more raid points as Patna inflicted an all out in the 11th minute to lead 10-6.
Deepak scored with a successful raid in the 11th minute as Pune trailed 7-10 before his two-point raid in the 13th minute revived Pune’s chances. Rajesh Mondal scored his first raid point in the 15th minute as Pune levelled the scores at 12-12.
Pune ended the first half strongly by inflicting an all out in the 19th minute to lead 18-12 before adding two more points to go to the breather leading 20-13.
Coming back, Pune sent Pardeep Narwal to the bench in the 22nd minute to lead 21-13. Vijay scored with a crucial do-or- die raid in the 24th minute as Patna trailed 15-21.
But Suresh Kumar’s two-point raid in the 25th minute consolidated Pune’s lead to 23-16 and within a few minutes it seemed like the game was slipping from Patna’s hands as Pune’s defence kept the dangerous Narwal and Monu Goyat out.
Pune led 28-18 in the 32nd minute and were on the verge of inflicting another all out but Patna forced a super tackle and then scored with a two-point raid in a minute to trail 22-28 in the 34th minute.
It proved to be a turning point for the match when Pardeep’s super raid in the 35th minute yielded four points for Patna, who found themselves at 28-29. Patna immediately inflicted an all out in the next minute to grab the lead at 31-30 before sending back Deepak to the bench in the 37th minute to lead 33-31.
Both teams were awarded a technical point in the 38th minute as Patna led 34-32.Pardeep then scored with a do-or- die-raid as Patna led 35-32 in the 39th minute before inflicting an all out in the final minute to seal the deal in their favour.
Patna will now take on Bengal in the second qualifier in Chennai on Thursday, the winner of which will meet Gujarat Fortunegiants in the final on Saturday.
Pro Kabaddi League 2019
1 Gujarat Fortunegiants beat Bengal Warriors to enter Pro Kabaddi final
2 Pro Kabaddi 2017: Gujarat Fortunegiants seal final berth, Patna Pirates beat Puneri Paltan 42-32
3 Pro Kabaddi: Pardeep Narwal shines as Patna Pirates demolish Haryana Steelers, to face Puneri Paltan
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Derek Higgins - Overall Start/Finish Positions (Class Positions Not Shown)
Derek Higgins
1998 PPG-Dayton Indy Lights
Race#
1 Homestead 3/15/98 Homestead-Miami Speedway 16 7
2 Long Beach 4/5/98 Streets of Long Beach 12 21R
3 Nazareth 4/27/98 Nazareth Speedway 6 15
4 Gateway 5/23/98 Gateway International Raceway 5 6
5 Milwaukee 5/31/98 The Milwaukee Mile 7 1
6 Detroit News 75 6/7/98 The Raceway on Belle Isle Park 13 12
7 Portland 6/21/98 Portland International Raceway 10 10
8 Cleveland 7/12/98 Burke Lakefront Airport, Cleveland 8 2
9 Toronto 7/19/98 Exhibition Place, Toronto 14 17
10 Detroit News 100 7/25/98 Michigan International Speedway 21 13
11 Grand Prix du Trois-Rivieres 8/2/98 Circuit Trois-Rivieres 10 10
12 Vancouver 9/6/98 Concord Pacific Place, Vancouver 3 2
13 Laguna Seca 9/13/98 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 6 3
14 California Speedway 10/31/98 Auto Club Speedway 12 7
1 Daytona Tire Challenge - Homestead 3/21/99 Homestead-Miami Speedway 2 DNS
2 Long Beach 4/18/99 Streets of Long Beach 6 19R
3 Nazareth 5/2/99 Nazareth Speedway 11 11
4 Milwaukee 6/6/99 The Milwaukee Mile 4 1
5 Portland 6/20/99 Portland International Raceway 8 16R
7 Toronto 7/18/99 Exhibition Place, Toronto 8 12R
8 Detroit News 100 7/24/99 Michigan International Speedway 13 11
9 Detroit News Challenge 8/8/99 The Raceway on Belle Isle Park 7 1
10 Mi-Jack 100 8/22/99 Chicago Motor Speedway 7 6
11 Laguna Seca 9/12/99 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 12 19R
12 California Speedway 10/31/99 Auto Club Speedway 14 15
2000 Dayton Indy Lights
6 Chicago 7/30/00 Chicago Motor Speedway 18 13
7 Mid-Ohio 8/13/00 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course 14 7
8 Vancouver 9/3/00 Concord Pacific Place, Vancouver 11 7
9 Yahoo! Sports Monterey Challenge 9/10/00 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 10 14
11 Houston 10/1/00 Reliant Park, Houston 3 14R
12 California Speedway 10/29/00 Auto Club Speedway 5 17
1 Monterrey 3/11/01 Parque Fundidora, Monterrey 1 1
2 Long Beach 4/8/01 Streets of Long Beach 5 3
3 Texas 4/28/01 Texas Motor Speedway 4 2
4 Milwaukee 6/3/01 The Milwaukee Mile 3 DNS
5 Spirit Mountain Casino Challenge 6/24/01 Portland International Raceway 7 3
6 Kansas 7/8/01 Kansas Speedway 9 11R
7 Toronto 7/15/01 Exhibition Place, Toronto 5 9
8 Mid-Ohio 8/12/01 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course 9 12R
10 Road Atlanta 10/5/01 Road Atlanta 8 6
11 Mazda Raceway 10/14/01 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 7 6
12 California Speedway 11/4/01 Auto Club Speedway 8 4
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Param Vir Chakra
For other uses, see Param Vir Chakra (disambiguation).
Param Vir Chakra and its ribbon, the highest military decoration of India
Awarded by India
Officers, men and women of all ranks of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, of any of the Reserve Forces, of the Territorial Army Militia and of any other lawfully constituted Armed Forces.[1]
Awarded for
"Most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea, or in the air."[1]
Currently awarded
Post-nominals
First awarded
Last awarded
Total awarded
Precedence
Next (higher)
Bharat Ratna[2]
Next (lower)
Ashoka Chakra[2]
The three living recipients of the Param Vir Chakra Award: Yogendra Singh Yadav, Bana Singh and Sanjay Kumar
The Param Vir Chakra (PVC) is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. The medal has been awarded 21 times, 14 of which were posthumous awards.
Literally meaning 'Wheel (or Cross) of the Ultimate Brave,[3] it is equivalent to the Medal of Honor in the United States and the Victoria Cross in the United Kingdom.[3] The PVC was established on 26 January 1950 (Republic Day of India), by the President of India, with effect from 15 August 1947 (Independence Day of India). It can be awarded to officers or enlisted personnel from all branches of the Indian military. It is the highest gallantry award of the Government of India after Ashoka Chakra,(amendment in the statute on 26 January 1980 resulted in this order of wearing). It replaced the former British colonial Victoria Cross (VC), (see List of Indian Victoria Cross recipients).
Provision was made for the award of a bar for second (or subsequent) awards of the Param Vir Chakra, with a replica of the Vajra, the weapon of Indra, the god of heaven.[3] To date, there have been no such awards. Award of the decoration carries with it the right to use P.V.C. as a postnominal abbreviation.
The Ashoka Chakra is the peace time equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, and is awarded for the "most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice" other than in the face of the enemy. The decoration may be awarded either to military or civilian personnel and may be awarded posthumously.
The award also carries a cash allowance for those under the rank of lieutenant (or the appropriate service equivalent) and, in some cases, a cash award. On the death of the recipient, the pension is transferred to the widow until her death or remarriage. The paltry amount of the pension has been a rather controversial issue throughout the life of the decoration. The stipend stood at Rs. 10,000 per month in August 2014.[1] In addition, many states have established individual pension rewards that far exceeds the central government's stipend for the recipients of the decoration.
Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously in 1971 was only Indian Air Force officer to date have been honoured with the Param Vir Chakra.[3][4] Naib Subedar Sanjay Kumar and Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav are the only active duty PVC recipients in the Indian Army.[5]
2 Recipients
3 Regiments
The medal was designed by Savitri Khanolkar who was married to an Indian Army officer, Vikram Khanolkar of Sikh Regiment.[6] This was done following a request from the first Indian Adjutant General, Major General Hira Lal Atal, who in turn had been entrusted with the responsibility of coming up with an Indian equivalent of the Victoria Cross by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union. Coincidentally, the first Param Vir Chakra was awarded to her son-in-law Lt Gen Surinder Nath Sharma's (ENC) elder brother, Major Somnath Sharma for his bravery in the Kashmir operations in November 1947. He died while evicting Pakistani infiltrators and raiders from the Srinagar Airport. This was when India and newly formed Pakistan had the first war over the Kashmir issue.
The medal is a circular bronze disc 1.375 inches (3.49 cm) in diameter. The state emblem appears in the center, on a raised circle. Surrounding this, four replicas of Vajra, the all-powerful mythic weapon of Indra, the ancient Vedic King of Gods. The motif symbolizes the sacrifice Rishi Dadhichi, who had donated his bones to the Gods for making Vajra to kill demon Vritra. The Indian General Service Medal 1947 which contained the Bhavani sword was withdrawn later.[7] The decoration is suspended from a straight swiveling suspension bar. It is named on the edge. On the rear, around a plain center, are two legends separated by lotus flowers. The words Param Vir Chakra are written in Hindi and English.[8]
A purple ribbon, 32 millimetres (1.3 in) long, holds the Param Vir Chakra.
IC-521 Major Somnath Sharma 4th Battalion
Kumaon Regiment Indian Army 000000001947-11-03-0000November 3, 1947 Badgam
Jammu & Kashmir Posthumous
27373 Naik Jadu Nath Singh 1st Battalion
Rajput Regiment Indian Army 000000001948-02-06-0000February 6, 1948 Naushera
SS-14246 Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane Bombay Sappers
Corps of Engineers Indian Army 000000001948-04-08-0000April 8, 1948 Naushera
2831592 Company
Havildar
Major Piru Singh Shekhawat 6th Battalion
Rajputana Rifles Indian Army 000000001948-07-17-0000July 17, 1948 Tithwal
22356 Lance Naik Karam Singh 1st Battalion
Sikh Regiment Indian Army 000000001948-10-13-0000October 13, 1948 Tithwal
IC-8947 Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria 3rd Battalion
1st Gurkha Rifles Indian Army 000000001961-12-05-0000December 5, 1961 Elizabethville
Katanga, Congo Posthumous
IC-7990 Major Dhan Singh Thapa 1st Battalion
8th Gurkha Rifles Indian Army 000000001962-10-20-0000October 20, 1962 Ladakh
Jammu & Kashmir, India
JC-4547 Subedar Joginder Singh 1st Battalion
Sikh Regiment Indian Army 000000001962-10-23-0000October 23, 1962 Tongpen La
NFA, India Posthumous
IC-7990 Major Shaitan Singh 13th Battalion
Kumaon Regiment Indian Army 000000001962-11-18-0000November 18, 1962 Rezang La
Quartermaster
Havildar Abdul Hamid 4th Battalion
The Grenadiers Indian Army 000000001965-09-10-0000September 10, 1965 Khem Karan Sector
India Posthumous
IC-5565 Lieutenant-Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore 17th Poona Horse Indian Army 000000001965-10-15-0000October 15, 1965 Phillora
Sialkot Sector, Pakistan Posthumous
4239746 Lance Naik Albert Ekka 14th Battalion
Brigade of the Guards Indian Army 000000001971-12-03-0000December 3, 1971 Gangasagar
Agartala Sector Posthumous
10877 F(P) Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon No. 18 Squadron Indian Air Force 000000001971-12-14-0000December 14, 1971 Srinagar
IC-25067 Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal 17th Poona Horse Indian Army 000000001971-12-16-0000December 16, 1971 Barapind-Jarpal
Shakargarh Sector Posthumous
IC-14608 Major Hoshiar Singh 3rd Battalion
The Grenadiers Indian Army 000000001971-12-17-0000December 17, 1971 Basantar River
Shakargarh Sector
JC-155825 Naib Subedar Bana Singh 8th Battalion
Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Indian Army 000000001987-05-23-0000May 23, 1987 Siachen Glacier
IC-32907 Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran 8th Battalion
Mahar Regiment Indian Army 000000001987-11-25-0000November 25, 1987 Sri Lanka Posthumous
IC-56959 Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey 1st Battalion
11th Gorkha Rifles Indian Army 000000001999-07-03-0000July 3, 1999 Khaluber/Juber Top
Batalik sector
Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir Posthumous
2690572 Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav 18th Battalion
The Grenadiers Indian Army 000000001999-07-04-0000July 4, 1999 Tiger Hill
Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir
13760533 Rifleman Sanjay Kumar 13th Battalion
Jammu & Kashmir Rifles Indian Army 000000001999-07-05-0000July 5, 1999 Area Flat Top
IC-57556 Captain Vikram Batra 13th Battalion
Jammu & Kashmir Rifles Indian Army 000000001999-07-06-0000July 6, 1999 Point 5140, Point 4875
Members of the Indian Army at the India Gate war memorial in Delhi.
Of the 21 awardees, 20 are from the Indian Army and one from the Indian Air Force. The Grenadiers have received the most number of Param Vir Chakras, with 3 awards. The various Gorkha Rifle regiments of the Indian Army have also received 3 awards, with the 1 Gorkha Rifles and 8 Gorkha Rifles and 11 Gorkha Rifles each having a PVC recipient.
The TV series, Param Vir Chakra (1990) directed by noted film director Chetan Anand was on the lives of Param Vir Chakra winners. The first episode of the series featured the first recipient of the award, Major Som Nath Sharma of Kumaon Regiment.[9]
The Bollywood movie LOC Kargil gives an account of all of the PVC recipients from the Kargil War where Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey is played by Ajay Devgan, Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav is played by Manoj Bajpai, Naib Subedar Sanjay Kumar is played by Sunil Shetty and Captain Vikram Batra is played by Abhishek Bachchan.
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PVC Awardees
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Indian honours and decorations
Gandhi Peace Prize
Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony
Bharat Ratna
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak
Inspired Teacher
National Bravery Award
National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement
National Bal Shree Honour
Stree Shakti Puraskar
President's Police Medal for Gallantry
Police Medal for Gallantry
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award
Ganga Sharan Award
Subramanya Bharathi Award
George Grierson Award
Moturi Satyanarayan Award
Jnanpith Award
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Sahitya Akademi Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
National Film Awards
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
Arjuna Award
Dronacharya Award
Dhyan Chand Award
Science and
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Kalinga Prize
Dr. B. C. Roy Award
Maha Vir Chakra
Vir Chakra
Peacetime
Ashoka Chakra
Kirti Chakra
Shaurya Chakra
Service & Gallantry
Sena Medal
Nao Sena Medal
Vayusena Medal
Sarvottam Yudh Seva Medal
Uttam Yudh Seva Medal
Yudh Seva Medal
Param Vishisht Seva Medal
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
Vishisht Seva Medal
Service and
Wound Medal
General Service Medal 1947
Samanya Seva Medal
Special Service Medal
Samar Seva Star
Poorvi Star
Paschimi Star
Operation Vijay Star
Siachen Glacier Medal
Raksha Medal
Sangram Medal
Operation Vijay Medal
Operation Parakram Medal
Sainya Seva Medal
High Altitude Service Medal
Videsh Seva Medal
Mention in Dispatches
Commendation Card
Highest military awards for gallantry
Argentine Nation to the Heroic Valour in Combat Cross (Argentina)
National Hero of Armenia (Armenia)
National Hero of Azerbaijan title (Azerbaijan)
Bir Sreshtho (Bangladesh)
Hero of Belarus title (Belarus)
Order of Bravery (Bulgaria)
Order of Heroic Exemplar (China)
Valour Cross (Denmark)
Cross of Liberty (Estonia)
Mannerheim Cross (Finland)
Légion d'honneur (France)
Cross of Honour for Valour (Germany)
Cross of Valour (Greece)
Param Vir Chakra (India)
Military Medal for Gallantry (Ireland)
Medal of Valor (Israel)
Gold Medal of Military Valour (Italy)
Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (Malaysia)
Military William Order (Netherlands)
War Cross (Norway)
Nishan-e-Haider (Pakistan)
Medal of Valor (Philippines)
War Order Virtuti Militari (wartime) / Order Krzyża Wojskowego peacetime (Poland)
Order of Michael the Brave (Romania)
Hero of the Russian Federation title (Russian Federation)
Nkwe ya Gauta (South Africa)
Laureate Cross of St. Ferdinand (Spain)
Parama Weera Vibhushanaya (Sri Lanka)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword (Sweden)
Order of Rama (Thailand)
Order of Katonga (Uganda)
Order of the Gold Star (Ukraine)
Victoria Cross (United Kingdom
New Zealand)
Medal of Honor (United States)
Order of the Tower and Sword (Portugal)
Southern Cross of Honor (Confederate States of America)
Order of Saint Louis (Kingdom of France)
Military Order of Maria Theresa (Austria-Hungary)
Medal of Bravery (Kingdom of Hungary)
Pour le Mérite (Kingdom of Prussia)
Military Order of Max Joseph (Kingdom of Bavaria)
Military Order of St. Henry (Kingdom of Saxony)
Military Merit Order (Kingdom of Württemberg)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Nazi Germany)
Order of the Golden Kite (Empire of Japan)
Order of Lāčplēsis (Latvia)
Grand Cross of Valour (Rhodesia)
Laureate Plate of Madrid (Second Spanish Republic)
Castle of Good Hope Decoration (South Africa)
Vietnam Military Merit Medal (South Vietnam)
Hero of the Soviet Union (Soviet Union)
Order of the Karađorđe's Star with Swords (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
Order of Freedom (SFR Yugoslavia)
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Islanders trio selected in NLL draft
Kevin Orleman is top goalie taken at 18th overall by Buffalo Bandits.
A trio of players who helped the Delta Islanders to their historic season were selected in Monday’s National Lacrosse League Draft.
Kevin Orleman was the first goaltender picked in the proceedings — taken 18th overall by the Buffalo Bandits. The Islanders acquired the Ontario native back in July from the Kitchener-Waterloo Braves. He was outstanding in leading the franchise to its first-ever Minto Cup berth and the B.C. Junior “A” Lacrosse League championship. The University of Guelph student posted a 7.85 goals against average and a .846 save percentage in backstopping Delta to series wins over New West and seven-time defending champion Coquitlam.
Meanwhile, another Islander trade deadline acquisition was selected by the hometown Vancouver Stealth. Defender Adam Jay was taken 32nd overall and also had a superb playoff for Delta after spending the bulk of his junior career with the Victoria Shamrocks. Jay proved to be a scoring threat in transition as well, producing a pair of goals and an assist in the Islanders' thrilling 11-10 overtime victory in the deciding game of the BCALL championship series.
Also selected Monday was third-year Islander Spencer Bromley — going in the fifth round (48th overall) to the defending NLL champion Saskatchewan Rush. Bromley enjoyed a standout three-year career in Delta after joining the club from the Richmond Intermediate “A” Roadrunners where he also played under Islanders coach Greg Rennie. He posted a career best 23 goals and 61 points during the regular season and was one of Delta’s best players in the Minto Cup with four goals in three games.
Graduating junior players who still have NCAA or NJCAA eligibility remaining with their respective college or university teams are not eligible for the NLL Draft.
MARK BOOTH / DELTA OPTIMIST/SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
© 2016 Delta Optimist
- See more at: http://www.delta-optimist.com/sports/islanders-trio-selected-in-nll-draft-1.2352251#sthash.Q4ZGbUqZ.dpuf
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Experiments in Digital Economics
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What’s Mine is Yours
March 27, 2014 Adam Quinn Leave a comment
So Xidax, a custom PC builder is accepting Doge and BitCoins. The kicker is that the computers themselves come with instructions for how to use the machine to mine more coins, meaning the machine could potentially pay for itself.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2114165/wow-much-custom-pc-boutique-system-builder-xidax-now-accepts-dogecoin.html
Also, Iceland’s now got one of their own.
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/cryptocoin-their-own-icelands-auroracoin-experiment-n59216
And what would Reddit be without it’s own currency.
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/21/reddcoin-rising-social-currency/
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddcoin
Book review of “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital”
February 12, 2014 Adam Quinn 2 Comments
Carlota Perez argues that the economy is a structurally engineered system of collapse and reward. Every half century capitalism produces a chain of events that repeat themselves time and time again. First, an innovative, disruptive technology comes into the world that essentially causes a revolution and upends the current infrastructure/establishment. This rupture enables a financial bubble to build. Once it grows to an unsustainable, overwhelming size, it bursts and the economy collapses. Upon collapse, a fertile ground comes out of the destruction, which leads to a “golden age”. Once the excesses of the “golden age” take root, political unrest arises.
Why is the economy intentionally built as a house of cards? Tech revolutions replace one technology with another, which leads to massive change and a subsequently explosively volatile period in markets (and potentially massive profitability). The new wealth that accumulates at one end is often more than counterbalanced by the poverty that spreads at the other end. With enough discrepancy in wealth, as noted, political unrest boils over. In theory, the practical task of setting up an adequate regulatory system / safeguards would seem essential to minimize suffering and instability. But the safeguards that exist are only present as to the extent that they enable the continuation of the system that they are designed to oversee.
Perez cites Schumpeter’s “Creative Destruction” theory (destroy old to forge new) as pivotal. Tech revolutions lead to paradigm shifts, which result in inclusion-exclusion mechanisms. Then, Perez writes of an “installation period” that is divided into two sections known as “irruption” and “frenzy.” How are these maintained? The first tech revolution enables the subsequent revolutions. Again, a product of design. Most of core assets of tech revolutions already existed. Every revolution combines truly new tech with others that are simply redefined. Big bang events initiating the revolutions are also bringing cost-competitive or cheaper options to the surface, which leads to investment, lending etc.
1st, Industrial rev > led by Britain (1771)
2nd, Age of steam and railways > led by Britain, then USA (1829)
3rd, Age of steel, electricity and heavy engineering > led by USA then Germany (1875)
4th, Age of oil, the car and mass production > USA > (1908)
5th, Age of info and telecommunications > USA > (1971)
She explains the technological revolution requires an entire network of interconnected services and infrastructures in addition to the primary technology that enables the new technology to take hold. An example would be when automobiles were invented, the subsequent services that need to be in place for the proliferation of automobiles would be gas stations and mechanics, but for these secondary services to be profitable, there would first need enough cars on the road. Additionally, people need to be educated with how the technology works, a social assimilation of the technology, transitioning it’s use into second nature. This period is painful for those who are awaiting the profits from the new technologies. The “excitement” at the beginning of a technological revolution “divides society” by “widening the gap between rich and poor” because of the frenzy of investment, and a “rift” occurs between “paper values and real values,” though mentions nothing about how or why she thinks this happens.
Characterizing the surge of a technological revolution can be divided into four main phases with a turning point at the center of these phases: Irruption, Frenzy, the turning point, Synergy, and Maturity. Irruption is when the new technology is introduced, the “techno-economic split,” with unemployment and the decline of the old industries. Frenzy is a time where there are “new millionaires at one end and growing exclusion at the other,” and mentions protests as almost a natural feature of this inequality, but that eventually fades. Other features include intense investment in the revolution, and decoupling with the whole system, and this is when the financial bubble happens. The Turning Point is “neither an event nor a phase; it is a process of contextual change,” when regulations balance the excesses and unsustainable features, and where the institutional recomposition and the “mode of growth” is defined. Synergy is known as the Golden Age, with coherent growth with increasing externalities, marked with production. The final phase, Maturity, fades into the Irruption of the next revolution, but is seen as the socio-political split, with market saturation of the last products and industries, and disappointment versus complacency. The first two phases fall within the Installation Period, where the last two are in the Deployment Period.
Governing these phases of the technological revolution are the those who control Financial Capital, and those who own Production Capital. Financial Capitalists possess wealth in money or other “paper assets”, acting only to increase wealth, and always seeking to make their money grow; making money with money. Production Capitalists seek to create new wealth by borrowing money from Financial Capital to produce goods and services, and by innovating and expanding, seek to reap as much wealth as possible off of the laborers. The relationship between these two sets of people changes through the phases of the revolution. During Irruption there is a love affair with Financial Capitalists with the revolution. In Frenzy, they decouple from the Production Capitalists, and recouple after the Turning Point in the Synergy phase. And in Maturity, begin to separate again.
The Maturity phase combines the signs of exhaustion of in many of the original core industries, with very high growth rates in the last few new industries with the same paradigm. Companies begin reaching the limits of their own industries and products and begin to invest in alternatives to carry them through the next phase. The buildup of idle capital of successful companies means more money can be invested in technological advances, mergers and acquisitions, and investments in foreign markets.
The companies begin to operate in a two paradigm mode, earning profits through their core industry while investing capital elsewhere. This development and diffusion of technological revolutions tends to stimulate innovations in finance that benefit from impulse they provide. eg. Suez canal made it possible for entrepreneurs to trade in small quantities of goods creating smaller, shorter-term credit allowing for credit markets that made possible budgets for home purchases of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and automobiles. The enthusiasm for these new technologies and the success of these new products leads to the end of the Irruption phase and starts the Frenzy.
The realocating of capital in risky investments leads to a destabilization of weaker markets, the redistribution of capital to those with the capital available to make investments. This cycle is usually marked with the overfunding industries that investors are convinced to be the most profitable, often creating a period of ‘ethical softening’ as loopholes are found, and ponzi schemes tend to be enticing in the escalation of investments. This is the boom we’re familiar with, where new companies like Yahoo, who produce virtually nothing, compete with Kodak, and old paradigm technology. This is the period of ‘Irrational exuberance’ and an ‘orgy of unrestrained speculation’ that occurs right before the bubble bursts and the economy is left in a recession, or depression depending on the height of the fall.
In Chapter 12, Perez discusses the passage to maturity through which economies go. A relevant point is her description of what many experience in the Brooklyn gentrification trap. An economy arrives at Maturity, the late phase of the deployment period, that is superficially brilliant but politically tumultuous. Then the workers organize and demand but promises aren’t delivered. The artists and activists and young rebel. As this period continues, the idle capital grows (1%) while investment opportunities dwindle (I’d make the case that this is the lack of available resources for the 99%).
The striking “however” to this economic point that Perez discusses is that “there seems to be an underlying faith in the eventual arrival of a period…without social problems as as a result of the operation of the system” (137). This poignantly describes many peoples’ frustration with the blanket acceptance of capitalism. It does not right itself.
The book ends with Perez asking whether the consequences of the current economic system – with its irruption and frenzy, which end up in a bubble and collapse – can be mitigated.
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Monday, Jul 21, 2014, 3:59 pm
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the Israeli government will work to prevent Al Jazeera from operating in Israel.
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Just one month after three of its journalists were sentenced to seven-year prison terms in Egypt for their alleged support of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera faces another threat to its reporting in the Middle East. This time, however, it’s a democratic government, not a military dictatorship, that’s doing the threatening: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for a ban on the Qatari media network’s operations in Israel, Haaretz reports.
During a press conference on Monday, Lieberman called Al Jazeera a “central pillar of the propaganda apparatus of Hamas” and compared the network to Der Sturmer, a World War II-era Nazi-run German newspaper.
Al Jazeera has frustrated the Israeli government with its critical coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, reporting on the heavy humanitarian toll of Israeli airstrikes and tank shells, including the destruction of a Palestinian hospital on Monday.
Israeli officials have also accused the Qatari government, which owns Al Jazeera, of providing funding and material support for Hamas, which has its political headquarters in Qatar’s capital city of Doha.
The Israeli government has long had a tense relationship with the journalists and media outlets that report on its conflicts with Palestine. Israeli security services have prevented journalists deemed too critical of its policies from entering the country. During previous military operations in Gaza, Israel has targeted media outlets allegedly associated with Hamas, killing two cameramen based in Gaza and wounding at least 10 media workers in a series of November 2012 airstrikes. A spokesperson for the Israeli government defended those strikes, saying that those targeted were “not legitimate journalists.”
But experts say banning Al Jazeera in Israel would likely violate the country’s Basic Laws, which guarantee freedom of the press. Only the Israeli Supreme Court could ban the news outlet, according to Haaretz.
Lieberman has also called on Israelis to boycott Arab businesses that have protested Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, writing on his Facebook page:
I call upon everyone not to shop anymore at the stores and businesses of those among the Arab sector who are participating today in the general strike that was declared by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee as a sign of empathy for Gaza residents and against Operation Protective Edge.
The Al Jazeera ban comes as the death toll in Gaza surpasses 550, with no immediate end to the conflict in sight. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told a parliamentary committee on Monday that Israel’s military operations in Gaza would continue until it completes its objectives.
"If needed, we will recruit more reservists in order to continue the operation as long as necessary until the completion of the task and the return of the quiet in the whole of Israel especially from the threat of the Gaza Strip," Yaalon told the committee.
yeah, i was just trying to meet half way, knowing all along that a christian has about as much chance in pakistan as a snowball in hell...i guess were all in some form guilty of political correctness.
Posted by mike c on 2014-10-15 00:25:11
thanx for your reply.i sometimes feel alone in my convictions,but its nice to get an amen! :) ..and yes, there is a political day of reckoning coming to a theatre near you! :)
About 50% of those killed in the Gaza war were combatants. That is much better than the British or American army which tends to have civilian casualty rates of 80%. It is even more surprising how Israel managed to keep civilian casualties relatively down when you consider how high the population density is in the Gaza Strip and Hamas's strategy of using civilian areas to house their leadership and store and fire their rockets. Even the UN condemned Hamas for using UN schools to store rockets.
See this video for how crazy the situation was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Posted by Andrew on 2014-10-05 20:47:36
It is important to do what you can to help those that can't defend themselves. You might not be able to do anything for the girls in Nigeria but you can vote for politicians that try to protect minorities from radical Muslims. And you can give to charities that help those that are oppressed: such as a charity that helps Yazidis escaping from ISIS or a charity that helps poverty stricken Christians in Pakistan that are discriminated against in 95% Muslim Pakistan. But try to find charities that don't want Muslim "refugees" coming to Western countries. The UN's UNHCR is a horrible charity to donate to because they want tens of thousands of Muslim "refugees" to become citizens of Christian-majority Western countries.
Many of the Christians in Pakistan have left to go to the West because they don't feel safe. For instance, in 2013, SEVENTY FIVE Christians were killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan. So don't go talking about how diverse Pakistan is, because it has become much less diverse (it went from 85% Muslim to 95% Muslim in the last century) and the minorities that do live in Pakistan often live in poverty and/or fear from their radical Muslim neighbors.
well,well...never drink beers and blog... im going to have to retract those last comments with an apology to michele an family. while like most peaple i was disappointed that the girls were'nt rescued, those comments last night were over the top and not my point of view.im sure the prez did what he could and should with the advisors and recon, considering it was'nt in our national interest, and i also agree with him that we cant be the police of the world. and its about time some of these other countries pony up and save the world. everyone expects it from us, and then bitch later about how we did it. sry michele, im sure you being a mother was frustrated and alarmed about the abduction more than most...my bad
Posted by mike c. on 2014-08-08 14:41:58
if michele obama truly thought of those girls as her own then she would get off her dead ass and save those girls!!!! im very mad at her for commenting that those girls were like her own, but yet she talks out her ass and is not as serious as were lead to believe.i curse the obama family with much misery and empty life til they correct the nigerian girls plight.
i guess the 300 black girls in nigeria are expendable and the current "pro muslim" administration must look the other way... but i find it very hard to sideline when i hear those black girls scream for help but no one cares cause they dont want to offend muslims...i wish i were superman and could come save them! ...life is cruel
constance, i feel very privileged to have sparred in a sense with you in differences of opinion. i find you to be a very caring soul who is concerned about humanity, and you are a great asset to us all, and everytime i talk with you i think of John Lennon and imagine. :) live long and prosper
political correctness is the new hula-hoop...
in all fairness, im not an expert beyond being an armchair quarterback. only understanding what i read and see on t.v. , having never been to the middle east or to israel. not being jewish and if i traveled there, who knows? i might be repulsed by the feeling of being on the outside, looking in at a nonjews need not apply society and might feel compassion well up in my heart for the palistinian arab if i were in their mist. i wish we all could turn the swords into plowshares, swearing never again to slaughter each other. but i think its in our dna or charactor and we wont stop til weve self destructed.if there is a god i hope he stops us in our tracks, and teaches us to be our brothers keeper.i totally agree with you that israel should not kill the innocents.but what should we do? we cant be the world police. i agree with obama on that. we cant solve every crises around the world. and the u.n. at present is a big joke.thanks to them, haiti now has colera
true, millions of peaple through history have been tortured and murdered by ignorant so-called christians mainly under the banner of the catholic church in the dark ages, hense the term dark i understand to mean unenlightened. while in the same timeframe the muslim world was flourishing with science, philosophy, medicine, and other higher learning. But if the established christian churches at the time were following the new testiment word for word instead of using only what they needed to control the masses,they would have been teaching mercy,loving they nieghbor as thyself,forgiveness, all the teachings of christ. but instead, evil selfserving men highjacked the christian movement, and were not practicing what the scripture clearly read. in contrast, most of todays moderate muslims are good peaple at heart, but not following the korans teachings word for word, such as killing the infidel or anyone who does'nt convert to islam wherever they find them.whereas the so-called muslim extremist follows the koran word for word, so would be considered a devout follower of their faith, and the moderate,a lukewarm undevoted soul who like a lukewarm christian, is professing to be so, but not fully committed in their heart and daily life to their faith as it is written word for word in their holy book. just yesterday i read that a christian in iran was sentenced by a judge to being burned on the lips by a cigarette for not fasting during the holy month of ramadan, and 5 muslim men"moderates?" were sentenced to 70 lashes each for the same offense at the public square.i assume the christian got a lighter sentence because it wasnt his religion? however, ive heard horror stories of other iranian christians recieving the death penalty for not renouncing christ and converting to islam...no wonder i seen a bumper sticker on the car of i assume was an atheist that read " dear lord...save me from your followers!!"
First off, I think you bring up some fair points, especially regarding the media's lack of interest in other humanitarian crises throughout the world, i.e. the overwhelming and continuing bloodshed in Syria, Central African Republic, the Congo, Sudan, and as you mention, Nigeria. where innocent civilians are being killed and terrorized, usually at much higher rates than in Palestine. Part of the reason the progressive media lacks ongoing coverage of these issues, I think, is because they do not neatly align with an overarching progressive agenda. To some extent, this is a fair critique of the media and a fair critique of the world's propensity to jump, with righteous indignation, from one cause to another without sustaining any lasting concern. On that point, I hear you, and I totally agree. However, I do think there is legitimate reason for fostering particular concern over the crisis in Gaza, especially in the U.S.; mainly because,in this conflict, we are not simply spectators from afar, but our government's policy directly empowers the Israeli government. Through enormous monetary and diplomatic aid, the U.S., more than any country in the world, is complicit, if not responsible, for the disaster in Gaza. Just yesterday, the U.S. was the sole veto in a UN resolution presented to direct an independent inquiry into Israel's bombing campaign. Not only has the U.S. has assured unquestioning loyalty to Israel over the past decades, the U.S. has permitted, even encouraged the expansion of settlements, unjust targeting, suspension, and arrest of Palestinian citizens, and, as I type this, unremitting violence which disproportionately harms civilians. Perhaps this is why the U.S. media is particularly interested in this conflict, as opposed to others where we do not hold such immediate sway. But perhaps I think too highly of the media.
As to your point on Iraq: True, Iraq was by no means a "pinpoint operation," which is one of the many reasons I, along with most other progressives, strongly opposed the effort. That is, aside from being poorly crafted, poorly executed, and poorly grounded, the Iraq war was, ethically speaking, indefensible, precisely because of the huge numbers of civilian casualties. Whether or not the enemy shields military bases amid urban areas does not determine whether or not a country may bomb densely populated areas, as per international law. There are many additional reasons for opposing the war in Iraq, but that's a separate topic which does not, in one way or another, relay the justice of Israel's use of force in Gaza.
Now you also bring up WWII, citing the bombing campaign on German cities. To that, I would simply remind you that, even at its time, the bombing of Dresden and other German cities was highly controversial. To this day, it is a subject of ongoing debate, even among fierce advocates of the war. Needless to say, it is a very difficult question, one that I don't claim to fully understand. Still, there is a massive distinction between bombing German cities during WWII, and bombing civilians in Gaza today. Nazi Germany, having already slaughtered millions of Jews, dissidents, and others that the Third Reich deemed unworthy, posed an existential threat, not just to the Jewish community, but to an entire way of life, an entire culture, an entire source of humanity. Leaving Hitler to realize his vision would literally strip the world of any pretense of dignity it had left. So, if ever there was a case for grudgingly (and tearfully) enduring civilian casualties in pursuit of a higher goal, a worth aim, WWII was the time. But even still, I think WWII tactics, by both the U.S. and the British, were indefensible, even given the urgency of the circumstances-- we should care just as deeply about the tactics used within war as we do about the cause of war itself.
Hamas, on the other hand, does not pose an existential threat to the state of Israel, nor could it ever. Try as they might, Hamas cannot remotely compete with Israel's level of military sophistication and might. Thus, for Israel to relentlessly pound Gaza with bombs, knowing fully well that innocent civilians are trapped there (mostly due to Israel's repressive policies) and will be killed as a result, is unspeakable. Yes, Israel has a right to defend itself, a right to live in peace without constant rocket fire. But Palestine, as well, has a right to exist, a right to defend itself, a right to live without constant terror, without churches, mosques, hospitals, and homes being demolished. Palestinians have the right to live with full-scale citizenship and equal protection under the law. Anything less is an insult.
Lastly, I take issue with your rigid dismissal of Islam as "a religion of constant jihad and sword." True, fundamentalist Islam is an incredibly divisive, violent, and insidious ideology, one that has claimed millions of lives. But so is fundamentalist Christianity-- I won't bore you with the history. At any rate, to universally condemn Islam demonstrates a shallow disregard for the plurality of opinion within the Muslim community. In fact, there is a large, and growing, number of Muslim activists, many of whom actively rebuke the horrific acts of violence and abuse perpetrated on behalf of their religion. Sayyid Al-Qemany is one such example, but there are many more.
Also, I think you speak for everyone when you insist that, hopefully, Hamas will never secure a nuclear weapon or any other weapon of mass destruction. Thankfully, I think that concern is fairly far-removed, at least at the moment. However, to reduce violence, to disintegrate an ideology constructed on resentment and fear, it is imperative not to compound the level of division and bloodshed, but to comprehensively address actual grievances. Until that happens, there is little hope of effectively resolving the dispute.
Posted by Constance on 2014-07-24 11:08:28
correction, 300+ girls and 100+ days since they were taken from their families. sry, the media has been downplaying this important humanitarian story so much that they've got me doing it. :(
when muslims do very bad things the world seems to look the other way like they think " oh thats just the muslims way or their indigenous customs". what ever happened to the 100+ very young nigerian girls kidnapped by boko haram and forced to convert to islam, sold into sexual slavery and brutality? were the very brave and obstinate christians girls that refused to convert brutally murdered in front of the others as an example? why did Michele not have her husband send in the calvary if she thought of these girls as her own? we sent some token advisors but you know as well as i that if those were actual presidents daughters we would have threw all we had at it to get them home safe. what if they were white europeon girls from prominant families? and boko haram was instead an israeli extremist group? would the worlds response and outrage had been different? im not jewish btw, im irish/native american and from a fairly nuetral standpoint, center democrat, maybe independent in some views but see the unbalanced response the world takes when it comes to israel vs the muslim nations. maybe its because theirs more potential muslim voters? i dont know the answer to that yet, but i love a good mystery.
i might add that the iraqi war to take out saddam wasnt a "pinpoint operation" either. (as Kerry sarcastically remarked off mic about israel's attempt at avoiding nonmilitary targets)its very hard to fight a foe in urban setting that uses civilians as shield and cover.and its always procedure to bomb by air as many military targets as possible pre-invasion to limit risk to boots on the ground. thats just the nature of war. it happened on D day in ww2 and all modern wars. i think it shows a concern of innocent casualties for israel to try and warn peaple to flee before bombing. but for some reason they stay. maybe hamas prevents peaple from getting out of harms way cause they want body count?
you make a lot of sense, but ive also noticed that once israel starts defending itself from terrorism and relentless rockets, the whole world puts muslim on muslim violence to the back burner and overlooks the war crimes and atrocities committed in syria,iraq, and other hotspots cause the world it loves its jewbashing. why has the world suddenly grown so accustomed to children in syria being killed,maimed, sexually assaulted,sold by their own families for bread,made homeless and countryless all by the hand of their fellow muslims? hamas hasnt been as effective at killing civilians as israel,but not for the lack of trying. war isnt victimless.peaple die. israel wants peace.islam by nature is a religion of constant jihad and sword.if they say its peaceful,they lie,or are lied to,and decieved. if hamas gets its hands on a nuke courtesy of iran will the world cheer when its rid of israel,but overlook the fact that muslims also killed millions of muslims to accomplish it? its an interesting question that i hope i never see answered.
all the more reason not to believe al jazeera? ...and im sure some christians are safe in Pakistan,depending on what region they live in. The jewish american journalist David Pearl was beheaded in Pakistan simply for being a jewish american.i hope the intolerance will fade where you can have more friends of different faiths. :) Pakistan needs more citizens like you! ...maybe there is hope in the younger, more open generation?
lol beheaded? Pakistan is a Muslim country, with population of several faiths... As an example my best friend is a Christian, funny how he is still alive, no? :)
Don't talk shit when you know nothing but propaganda that media have fed you, genius! -_-
Posted by Hotaro on 2014-07-23 02:57:26
I agree with all of that. Hamas is absolutely a life-threatening cancer whose ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel. Hamas specifically targets Israeli civilians; and Hamas is not deterred even by civilian casualties in Palestine (in some ways such casualties strengthen them.) Needless to say, Hamas should be condemned in the strongest way possible, and indeed, as you mention, peace negotiations would be considerably more productive without a group of militant fanatics hijacking the process.
HOWEVER, none of this justifies the horrific levels of violence Israel has employed to neutralize said threat. Regardless of intentions, the Israeli army has killed over 400 civilians (the number will probably be higher by the time you read this,) injured over a thousand, displaced thousands more, and wreaked a mass of destruction on whole villages and communities. Even if you agree that Israel, along with any other state, has the right to defend itself (as I do), the disproportionate, wholesale bombing and shelling of areas densely populated by Palestinian civilians is absolutely indefensible, even by the most lenient standards of "just war." Israel's virulent campaign breaches international law, the Geneva conventions, and sheer human dignity. It's a crime against humanity.
But not only that, Israel's strategy defies logic. If anything, Hamas has garnered worldwide sympathy because of Israel's use of violence. Every time a Palestinian child falls prey to an Israeli bomb, more civilians that would otherwise remain partial to diplomacy are radicalized beyond repair, and it's easy to understand why.
So yes, Israel should stop before they've swept Gaza clean of Hamas: first, because it's impossible to kill an ideology by employing systematic violence, and secondly, and most urgently, because even if it were possible, it would be at the expense of hundreds of more Palestinian lives, all of which are equally valuable and worth protecting.
i encourage you to read the hamas charter. it states that they will stop at nothing,sacrifice everything,everyone, to wipe israel from existance.and the population of gaza had better go along with them or hamas will kill any dissent. so hamas is much like a life threatening cancer that must be cut out for the host to survive.if there was no hamas, the palistinian authority would sign the treaty and there might be peace.but there is no dealing with hamas. they dont want peace,they started it,they want war.but jumped the gun in using their tunnels.now the secrets out and their tunnels of terror are wasted labor.
and you think arab countries are tolerant?!? lol...you truly are living in a liberal lala land! and if you found yourself in saudi arabia... liberal thoughts(or any thoughts contrary to islam) could get you beheaded! talk about opposites attract! ...i wonder where this love affair that libs have with islam will find them when a worldwide sharia law is instituted? islam is the most intolerant society in history.
"freedom of speech"
Posted by Ibrahim Ahmad on 2014-07-22 13:40:44
So there is literally no cost too high in Israel's attempt to eradicate Hamas? Even as civilian casualties climb past 400 and Gaza turns to rubble? If that's not an extremist position, I don't know what is. I encourage you to read this letter by a Norwegian doctor working in Gaza:
http://www.middleeastmonitor.c...
Everyday I read another report that makes me thing that the state of Israel is becoming more and more like pre-WWII Germany. Intolerance is never on the favorable side of history.
Posted by lbmouse on 2014-07-22 07:36:00
israel should not stop til they've swept gaza clean of hamas
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Unit: 568th Signal Company, 41st Signal Battalion Loss Coordinates: 133834N 1091351E(CR087088)
Date of Birth: August 8,1940 (Pine Bluff Arkansas) Status(in 1973): Missing in Action Category :2
Home City of Record: Davenport, Iowa Acft/Vehicle/Ground: 01D
Loss Date: December 15,1965 Other Personnel In Incident: (none missing)
MOS (Military Occupational Specialty Code): 061B
Start of Tour: Wednesday, December 15 ,1965
Date of Casualty: Friday, October 26,1973
Age at time of loss: 33
Casualty type: (C3) Non hostile, died while missing
Reason: Air loss – Crashed on land ( Pilot-Fixed wing aircraft)
Country: South Vietnam
Province: Phu Yen
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WO Jerry Prosper Clark was a pilot flying a reconnaissance mission when his 01D aircraft (serial#55-4686) went down just south of Qui Nhon, South Vietnam. Prosper had experienced an in-flight emergency; he radioed that his battery had exploded, and that he was running low on fuel. 1Lt. Robert L. Taylor, who was flying a nearby UH1B, tried to intercept Clark and guide him to Qui Nhon airfield. Clark’s aircraft, according to his radio message, “quit” and he headed for the beach.
When Taylor flew over the beach trying to locate Clark, he found wreckage of hos aircraft in shallow water near the hamlet of Tuy Phong, about 8 miles south of Qui Nhon. Several aircraft and vessels were dispatched to locate Clark, but no sign of him was found.
When search teams surveyed the crash site, Jerry’s survival gear was not found and it was thought that he had been taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. Stories from villagers differ. In one version, Clark left the aircraft, swam to shore, swam back to the aircraft to get a weapon, returned to shore and fled into the hills. Another version says that Clark swam ashore, returned to the aircraft, but was shot by a sniper and fell into the water as though mortally wounded. No proof of either version has been found, nor has JERRY P.CLARK.
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Parties Reach a Settlement in Top-Two Primary Lawsuit
by Lucas Eaves in States Jun 6, 2013
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The parties in Field v. Bowen, one of the legal challenges to the nonpartisan top-two primary in California, reached a settlement over the amount of attorney’s fees awarded to the defendants/interveners.
Californians to Defend the Open Primary (“CADOP”) and the Independent Voter Project (“IVP”), the proponents and supporters of the Top Two Open Primary Act, announced Thursday that they have agreed to a settlement resolving CADOP and IVP’s claim to $243,279.50 in attorneys’ fees, awarded by the San Francisco Superior Court following CADOP and IVP’s successful defense of the measure.
Under the settlement:
The plaintiffs agreed to dismiss their appeal of the fee award.
CADOP and IVP agreed to cut their claim to fees by approximately 60 percent to $100,000. CADOP and IVP also agreed that plaintiffs could pay that amount in several installments over two years rather than as a single lump sum.
If the $100,000 is paid in timely fashion, CADOP and IVP have agreed to forgive the remaining $143,279.50 in full.
This settlement will end a long lasting lawsuit in which the plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of California’s new nonpartisan electoral system.
Six plaintiffs (Mona Field, Richard Winger, Steve Chessin, Rodney Martin, Jeff Mackler and Jennifer Wozniak) brought suit in 2010, alleging that two provisions of Proposition 14’s implementing legislation were unconstitutional and, as a result, Proposition 14 itself could not be implemented until the Legislature enacted corrective legislation. Plaintiffs sought to have the pre-existing partisan primary system reinstated in the meantime.
The First Appellate District in San Francisco rejected plaintiffs’ claims as a matter of law in Field v. Bowen, 199 Cal. App. 4th 346 (2011). After judgment was entered the trial court ruled that the plaintiffs must pay CADOP and IVP’s attorneys’ fees for their role in defending the public interest.
Following the award, the defendants, including the Independent Voter Project, made efforts for a settlement offer which would have relieved the plaintiffs of their obligation to pay any attorney fees. In exchange, the plaintiffs would have to agree not to continue challenging current claims or to bring forth new causes of action.
On March 29, 2013, the plaintiffs filed an appeal against the ruling on attorneys fee, thereby rejecting the defendants’ original offer. This week’s settlement brings a final conclusion to the Field v. Bowen case.
You can read the settlement here.
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Kaleidoscope has been highlighted as an example of good practice in the 2016 •what Really Matters in Children and Young People’s Mental Health Report”by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Young Minds and the Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition.
In 2006 Kaleidoscope was endorsed by Margot Sunderland at the Children’s Mental Health Institute in London. Margot led workshops for me in brain chemistry and invited me to run a workshop at the annual conference in London.
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Anne Kaye has written articles about Kaleidoscope Therapy which have been published in “Counselling in Education“ and “Junior Education Monthly” and featured in “The Times Educational Supplement” (TES), “The Independent Newspaper” (Aug 2004) and “The Milton Keynes Citizen” Newspaper
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Mastic gum is the resin of the evergreen mastic tree, native to the Chios island in Greece where it is known as ‘mastiha’. It offers astonishing health benefits, such as curing digestive disorders, improving dental health and lowering cholesterol levels.
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Mastic gum has been chewed for thousands of years to cure multiple ailments ranging from snake bites to preventing cavities. In fact, the English word masticate, which means ‘to chew’ is derived from mastic gum. It is mildly sweet to the taste and due to its rise in popularity, is sold in many forms: chewing gum, oil, toothpaste and powder. It is also sometimes used in ice-cream, sauces and preserves.
Mastic gum used to be so valuable that it was worth its weight in gold! Here are 10 reasons to get your hands on some:
Studies have shown that frequent chewing of mastic gum helps to relieve the symptoms of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), Crohn’s disease and indigestion. It’s a powerful anti-inflammatory, which also helps to reduce bloating and infectious inflammation in the gut.
2. Destroys H.Pylori Bacteria
Research has shown that 40-50% of the world population could be infected with a bacteria known as Helicobacter Pylori, which causes peptic ulcers. Intensive studies revealed that regular chewing of mastic gum destroyed this bacterium in both the mouth and stomach, which greatly reduces the risk of developing ulcers.
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The Australian Government, known to be a lenient jurisdiction on foreign bribery governance, is posed to implement various changes intended to combat foreign bribery and mitigate local corporate corruption.
Among the many changes in the works, the government is suggesting the implementation and broadening of corporate offences with regards to prevention and intention, to give law enforcement agencies a wider reach for prosecutions.
With the goal to create a corporate culture accustomed to bribery prevention, a new corporate offence is being proposed. This offence is intended to provide companies with incentive to implement and use a bribery prevention system, as the punishment for the absence of this system is automatic liability for bribery committed by their agents, employees, and contractors (both locally and overseas). A similar approach has already been put in place by the United Kingdom with their Bribery Act 2010. The effectiveness of this provision has been questioned by those criticizing the changes, but it has had success in creating awareness and encouraging companies to implement changes to their internal bribery prevention systems. Overall there is room for improvement, but this is a good first step in combating foreign bribery.
A key aim of these proposals is to create a broader definition of “intention” in relation to foreign bribery, as the current definition is very narrow. To assist in strengthening this definition, there has been an additional offence proposed that will include “acting with reckless conduct” in the scope of a criminal offence, as opposed to the current wording which only references “obtaining a business advantage”. There have also been multiple amendments to this current definition of “intention”, including the addition of “personal advantage” to the wording. The article below provides an in-depth list of these changes, which could drastically affect the legal environment with regards to foreign bribery.
In addition to the above, the Australian government have also announced the introduction of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) scheme, intended to motivate companies to self-report internal bribery and corporate crime, as well as providing the Government with further measures to enforce corporate crime laws. This scheme is similar to those already implemented in the USA (2000) and UK (2012). It will most likely have a direct effect on the D&O and Crime insurance market, as the costs for penalties imposed via the DPA may not be included in current wordings for D&O and Crime policies. This proposed DPA scheme is outlined in detail in the below article.
Insurance Repercussions: Based on the above amendments, there could be several implications for insurers with far-reaching effects on companies that hold or require Directors & Officers or Crime policies, including:
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Thoughts on Joy Villa accusing Corey Lewandowski of sexual harassment… a slap on the butt is sexual harassment? Lmao!!!
December 26, 2017 Kev Brock Leave a comment
Well this is getting interesting. Initially, I supported Joy Villa when she wore that MAGA dress at the Grammy’s. I started supporting her and enjoying what she’s been doing. It seems to me she was trying to inspire other Trump supporters that it’s okay to be a Trump supporter which seems that’s what her goal was. As time went along, she grew more popular and her music kept getting more popularity. Her music went straight to the charts and all that stuff.
Now that Joy Villa has gotten more attention for herself, she’s been exposed as a fraud recently. She’s been exposed as a die-hard liberal and Scientologist. She’s not really a Trump supporter as she’s trying to make herself out to be and the Trump supporting community knows it. She was exposed as supporting Bernie Sanders in the past and she supported Barack Obama when he was president before she supposedly jumped aboard on the Trump train.
I started losing interest in Joy Villa once she started promoting herself that she is running for Congress and that’s how she got exposed as a Scientologist. So I steered myself clear of her and stopped supporting her for good. I bought her music wishing I never did… but I will never buy anything from her ever again in the future, though!!!
Now to get even more attention for herself, she is accusing conservative and fellow Trump supporter, Corey Lewandowski of sexual harassment. What is she accusing him of sexual harassment for? A slap on the butt. Yes, you heard that right.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/26/trump-supporter-joy-villa-says-filed-sexual-assault-complaint-against-corey-lewandowski.html
So let me get this straight. She’s about ready to run for Congress it looks like and she’s already accusing someone of sexual harassment? Wow. Predictably, Joy keeps going on and on about this on twitter. It’s like, “Oh no, someone slapped by butt and I’m hurt really bad. Booo hoooooo…..”. I mean, Christ… get the fuck over yourself! She obviously thinks this is going to earn her more votes for her Congress bid.
I hope Joy loses the election miserably. I used to like Joy but now I can’t stand her and find her annoying as fuck. She’s up to something and she’s got something up her sleeve.
What I think she’s doing is that secretly she despises President Trump like every liberal. She’s a liberal pretending to be a Trump supporter. Lately, she’s been going around trying to promote “love” and “unity” which is what her “Make America Great Again” song is about. That’s not what a true Trump supporter does, per se… I think she’s upset at Trump at supposedly dividing the country and that’s what her “love” and “unity” thing is about. Well, whatever her plan is… it’s not gonna work.
Her 15 minutes of fame is just about over. Other Trump supporters are doing a good job exposing the fraud that she is. Most of us think she was hired by George Soros ’cause she’s linked to him somehow. Joy Villa is already doing a good job dividing the Trump supporting community anyways. Us true supporters are smarter than that and we know the kind of fraud Joy is.
Most Trump supporters already turned their back on her but there are still some supporting her. We’re trying to get everyone to stop supporting her. We don’t want people supporting a fraud… spending their hard earned money on a fraud and we don’t want conservatives voting for her if she really is running for Congress. She’s obviously accusing Lewandowski for more votes which is pathetic. There are still famous Trump fans supporting her like Sean Hannity for example.
Ever since Joy has been accusing Lewandowski, this Lewandowski guy hasn’t responded and never put out a statement. Well, I think he should respond and fight back ’cause this is lawsuit worthy, in my opinion. This definitely does fall under slander and libel. Lewandowski should sue her as a way to help shut her up. I think he’ll do it when he sees that she won’t give it up. She’s still going on about it on twitter.
She really needs to get off the Trump train, though. I think she’s a secret hater. She hates Trump, I can tell.
On top of that, a slap on the butt as sexual harassment? Um, wow. That’s so absurd. Police won’t do anything about it ’cause even they’ll know it’s a joke. Give it up, Joy. What you’re doing will fail and we’ll put your so-called music and political career to an end pretty fast. We’re about to do just that. You’re done!
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An offer he can’t accept
August 29, 2016 John Quiggin41 Comments
Now that the Greens and Xenophon group have rejected the idea of a plebiscite, the only chance of getting one through is if Bill Shorten agrees. Turnbull obviously hopes to wedge Labor on this, by saying that this is the only way of getting equal marriage through the Parliament, and that there is no way he will allow a free vote on the issue. What should Shorten do?
In my (not original) view, Shorten should announce support for a binding plebiscite beginning with a bound vote of both parties. That is, the Parliament should pass legislation stating that equal marriage will come into effect immediately on receiving majority support in a plebiscite. Labor’s support should be conditional on all Coalition MPs voting for the legislation.
It’s obviously unlikely that Turnbull would accept such an offer or that he could deliver on it if he did. So, the primary effect would be to point up the bogus nature of the proposed plebiscite. But, supposing he did accept, I don’t see that this would be a disaster. There’s no fundamental principle that plebiscites are a bad way of deciding things. And the whole idea of a splecial “free vote” makes it clear that this set of issues has always been regarded as exceptional,
It’s true that the campaign over a plebiscite would be divisive. But this has been a divisive issue ever since Howard ramped it up more than a decade ago. An outright win at a plebiscite might be a good way of silencing the haters.
To repeat, though, there’s almost zero chance of a plebiscite happening on these terms. For Turnbull, it’s an offer he can’t accept.
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Moz of Yarramulla says:
@John Goss
I am doing this, so as to enable rapid passage of SSM laws
It’s not going to be rapid, it’s too late for that. The far right want to drag it out for as long as possible. The least tedious option would be Turnbull throwing himself on the grenade, saying “it’s a free vote, bring it on” and watching the private members bill sail through. Shorten can’t make that happen.
NathanA says:
@Apocalypse4
Actually, that’s not true, I can come up with an example of a referendum that failed only for the law to change 8 years later. In 1955, Sweden voted not to switch to driving on the right hand side of the road by 83-15. Then, in 1963 the parliament changed it, so one night in 1967 everyone changed from driving on the left to driving on the right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_driving_side_referendum,_1955
But on this occasion, I’d call the bluff and have the plebiscite if I were Shorten. You’re going to win so why not?
Apocalypse says:
@Moz of Yarramulla
The least tedious option would be Turnbull throwing himself on the grenade, saying “it’s a free vote, bring it on”
If he does that, Tony Abbott will be PM again within a week.
@D
So do you want to go through 16 attempts at a plebiscite?
Moz, am I missing something? This seems pretty clear cut to me:
http://greens.org.au/lgbtiq
I’m happy to be corrected, but I’m not sure where the idea that Greens only support a ‘watered down policy’ has crept in? “SSM” or “Same-sex marriage” might be shorthand for the issue, but even Turnbull regularly uses the phrase LGBTI, not LGB.
I’d be surprised if words very similar to ‘any two people, irrespective of gender’ weren’t included in amendments to the Marriage Act.
But again, am I missing something?
FREDDO says:
If I was Malcolm (that is, a sniveling greedy fool) I would wait for a SSM bill to come from the Senate and then encourage a few MPs to cross the floor and vote in favour of the suspension of standing orders so it can be voted on in the House. There are at least three known gay Liberal MHRs. Shouldn’t be too hard. I think there is a good chance that will happen (and Malcolm will stuff it up in some way). Then it will be open warfare
J-D says:
Ivor :
It is not up to the majority to decide whether a minority has equal rights.
It is up to Parliament.
If you mean that our system does, as a matter of fact, enable Parliament to grant rights and to deny them (to majorities as well as to minorities), that is obviously true.
Whether that is a good system is less clear.
My opposition to the plebiscite (as proposed) is mainly based on the fact that it is a hypocritical dodge that shouldn’t be rewarded.
GrueBleen says:
@Ernestine Gross
Your #1 of 29 Aug.
You said: “There is a budget repair job at hand.” and is that ever a mouthful – or perhaps a mindful. There’s nothing I’d like better than a long, slow discourse on just what this all means and why a bunch of not-very-bright economic ignoramuses (such as Turnbull, Morrison and the Chris Richardsons of the world) get to set the agenda.
But I guess that might be a marathon like ProfQ’s periodic resuscitation of the nuclear power nonsense, and this particular post and it’s presenting topic isn’t the place for it.
Is there a place for this in a sandpit (or is that really a ‘snakepit’) and does anybody have the stomach, and the lifetime, for it ? Again.
John Goss :
I think Shorten would get credit for such a cooperative approach, but he has chosen instead to go the ‘attack the government as much as possible’ route.
The plebiscite seems like a false choice to me because so many Coalition MPs have said that they will not vote according to the result. So, if it’s non-binding, we might as well skip it and go straight to a free vote.
Collin Street says:
The far right want to drag it out for as long as possible.
So does the ALP.
I doubt it. The conservatives who are upset at two men or two women marrying will be even more upset at someone slipping legal recognition of gender diversity in. I would love to see that part. But I think the current process is designed to fail in a nasty way so no-one wants to repeat it.
Dropping gender restrictions is not equality. I expect the other restrictions on marriage to remain, meaning that the change will be “fewer people are unable to marry now” and when marriage equality activists keep pushing after SSM they’re going to face push-back from well-meaning folk who’ve fallen for the idea that what’s being discussed now *is* equality. It’s no more equality than “let’s count aborigines in the census, but they still can’t get their stolen land back” is racial equality.
Marriage equality is when any two people who wish to, can marry. Not “any two citizens not already married, imprisoned, incompetent or subject to a detention order, may marry”. As Cory Bernadi would put it ‘I want to be able to marry both my sisters, and my dog'”.
FWIW, if you want to really set The Greens off, ask them what their position is on marriage for intellectually disabled people.
The NZ Greens spent some tense time discussing that, before deciding that they didn’t want to have a policy (they do at least support a ban on involuntary sterilisation, unlike the Australians). But at least they *have* a decent policy on disability rights. Mojo Mathers is largely a symptom, not a cause, of their approach. The Ozzies want to “support cripples better”, rather than dealing with disabled people as if they are actually people too (and no, I’m not disabled, except in the sense of being rendered speechless by the bigoted idiocy I see in politics).
Rights-based approaches can lead you into unexpected territory very quickly. I quite like them for that reason. But unfortunately sheltered members of the privileged majority recoil in horror when faced with the prospect of the changes that result. Loss of privilege feels like oppression, as the SJWs like to say.
David Irving (no relation) says:
One problem is, of course, that the plebiscite cannot be made binding. (I’ve seen arguments from Constitutional lawyers pointing this out in tedious detail.)
Forget the Greens, I don’t know what my position is on marriage for intellectually disabled people. Should marriage, like one of the activities that happens after marriage (and before marriage come to think of it), require informed consent? Of what meaning is a wish to marry if one can form no adequate concept of marriage or what it might entail? I am no fan of contractual thinking in general but marriage is contractual both ethically and legally. A person needs to be able to understand the contractual aspects. But I admit intellectually able people can be ethically or empathically disabled so to speak, so being intellectually able is no guarantee of being fit for marriage (of the de jure or de facto kind) either.
anthony nolan says:
The main argumnt against a plebiscite is that it would create an insufferable culture of abuse towards the LGBTI community and one that would probably last long into the future. Very vulnerable young LGBTI people, it has been predicted, may suicide. At the very least we will have a toxic debate especially with the fascists seeking to weaken 18c and the ACL campaigning for State laws that protect people from comments that offend, vilify or ridicule someone on the basis of sexuality to be repealed or suspended prior to a plebiscite. That shows how they intend to play their cards.
Both my kids are queer and I don’t us to have to go through this.
Notwithstanding all that, my substantial opposition to a plebiscite is that rights are either inherent and implicit and waiting to be discovered in the process of the extension of recognition of various previously unknown rights or they are privileges. Having a popularity poll on whether or not human rights ought to be extended to the LGBTI community in the form of equal legal rights and recognition in marriage establishes a disastrous precedent. The corollary of extending rights by popular vote is taking them away from some other group by the same process.
Besides, imagine taking a popular vote on the civil rights of Jews. Outrageous, right?
So, no to a plebiscite on all fronts. No-one is entitled to vote on the value of others in our community by any imaginable identifier – sexual preference, religion, “race”, ethnicity, appearance, culture, beliefs.
This plebiscite will entrench Australian’s right to be a bigot because it is an exercise in bigotry.
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What is the Worst Case Scenario for Houston, East Texas Concerning Hurricane Harvey
Courtesy Levi Cowan at tropicaltidbits.com
Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane (winds over 111 mph) Saturday morning somewhere near Aransas Pass. Most computer prediction models agree on that, however, after landfall, those models differ greatly on the future track of this dangerous storm.
Every 3-6 hours, Levi Cowan with tropicaltidbits.com posts a composite map showing the latest tracks of various computer simulations. Those forecast tracks have been changing greatly with every issuance, showing the difficulty that meteorologists are having in pinpointing exactly where Harvey where ultimately travel. The most recent future tracking map show some major concerns for Houston and East Texas.
Quite a few of the simulated tracks show Harvey coming ashore on Saturday, but then looping back out to the Gulf of Mexico on Monday or Tuesday. Then, Harvey could make a second landfall just southwest of Houston and then travel north northeast straight to the Pineywoods.
If this general track happens, what does that mean for the swath of Texas from Houston to Deep East Texas. First and foremost, copious amounts of rain. The 15-20 inches of rain that is already expected to fall near Houston could go to upwards of 30 inches cumulative from this storm. For East Texas, 10-15 inches of rain wouldn't be out of the question as the center of the storm could travel over us by mid-week next week. Some native Texans may remember the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 which dumped up to 40 inches of rain in the greater Houston area after it stalled over southeast Texas.
What about wind damage to Houston and East Texas in a worst case double landfall scenario?
The Houston metro area will definitely experience tropical storm force winds (up to 74 mph) with the first landfall of Harvey. East Texans may experience a few rain squalls with occasional gusts topping 40 mph, but don't expect the wind damage we had with Rita and Ike a few years ago. However, if Harvey travels back over the warm waters of the Gulf after making its first landfall, some regeneration could occur. Certainly, if Harvey loops back out to the ocean, it will be a minimal tropical storm by then, but how much strength the storm regains would depend on its duration over the warm Gulf waters, and right now, that is a hard calculation to make.
For right now, the best advice is to monitor the weather situation and if you live in a flood prone area, be prepared to evacuate. Also, with the number of evacuees that will be traveling inland from coastal Texas cities, avoid unnecessary travel on major highways and make sure your vehicles are gassed up and that you are stocked up on groceries. The influx of possible evacuees could strain gas and grocery supplies. Plus, this storm will spend quite a bit of time over refineries and oil platforms, meaning the supply of oil and gas will be cut short for a while.
Stay safe, hunker down, and keep track of this weather situation with KICKS 105.
Filed Under: flooding, Hurricane Harvey, local news, local weather, worst case scenario
Categories: East Texas News, Weather
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Brand Enforcement / 06.20.2019
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By Alex Jones
A recent federal court decision serves as another reminder to manufactures and brands of the importance and benefits of reseller and distribution agreements. These types of agreements govern the relationship between a manufacturer of goods and the reseller of those goods. Carefully drafted reseller agreements not only help to control a company’s distribution channels, but they can also be used as a weapon to combat unauthorized resellers.
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Final Date – Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty:
I wasn’t the least bit surprised that Frank Pierce called me that night. He was very adept at getting to us before we got to him. Frank had spent the night before drinking at Tony’s and had any number of friends who could prove where he was when Cindy Reynolds was killed. I thanked him profusely for calling. But he was reluctant to hang up.
“That girl — that waitress — worked at Facelli’s, didn’t she?”
I sighed and agreed that she had.
“That’s the place with the Italian chef on the pizza box, isn’t it?”
I decided I wasn’t tired of talking to Frank after all. “That’s the place,” I said.
Frank grunted.
“What’s this interest in pizza boxes, Frank? You collect them?”
“Someone does,” he said ominously.
“Someone I know?”
“I don’t want to get anyone in trouble,” he protested.
“Then why’d you call?”
Another grunt. He knew why he’d called — to cover his ass.
“Look,” he finally said, “there was a pizza box from Facelli’s in my kitchen this morning. It’s not there anymore.”
I refused to get excited. “So?”
“So, I don’t go to Facelli’s.”
“But maybe your roommate does, is that it?”
“I’m just saying someone came home with a pizza last night and someone decided to clean up the kitchen this morning before it even needed it.”
“Okay, Frank,” I sighed, “where are you?”
“I’m not home, that’s for sure, and I don’t plan to be there for another hour.”
“Giving me a clear field?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he snapped, and hung up.
Shaleah insisted on tagging along. She thought it wouldn’t be wise for a woman to go calling on a potential murderer alone at midnight. I thought she just wanted to ogle Chip Greathouse.
“Next you’ll tell me nice girls shouldn’t be cops,” I said as we crawled into my car.
Shaleah’s smile was wicked. “Nice girls aren’t.”
The ride was short and noisy. Shaleah, like Mulhaney, had no use for the idea that Dan O’Brien was the murderer. If he’d taken off, she said, then he was running from the girl in his apartment, and school, and cops who didn’t want to believe him. For the sake of argument, I pointed out that if he had nothing to hide, there was no reason to run from the cops.
Shaleah snorted and said if I were black, I wouldn’t be so dumb.
Chip took a long time to open the door. When he did, he wasn’t inclined to invite us in. Shaleah stood behind me in the hall, lazily slapping her nightstick into the palm of her hand. It made a substantial thud. Chip reconsidered and let us in.
“I was asleep, you know,” he grumbled.
I had seen the bedroom door close very quickly as we walked in. He might have been in bed, but he hadn’t been sleeping. I felt sorry for any man interrupted in such circumstances, so I got straight to the point. “You were at Facelli’s last night.”
Unfortunately, Chip had pulled on only his jeans before answering the door. So while his mouth was saying I was crazy, I could see all those lovely muscles tensing across his chest and shoulders.
“Don’t lie about it, Chip. I know you were there. Just tell me when.”
“Who says I was there?” he demanded. It wasn’t prudent to call a big man a liar, especially when he was lying. Chip’s hand was curling into a fist, and even if he was doing it unconsciously, I calmly decided to step out of his reach. Shaleah leaned back against the counter separating the living room from the kitchen and watched us with great interest.
“Doesn’t matter where I heard it, Chip. Fact is, you went to Facelli’s. I want to know when.”
He growled something obscene.
Shaleah clucked her tongue in dismay. “Boy’s got a nasty mouth, Jo. Imagine such a mouth on a boy so pretty.”
Chip whirled on Shaleah, and the nasty mouth got nastier. I was willing to chalk it up to fear rather than racism, but then he raised his fist at Shaleah, and I decided that I might be wrong. He was a pretty big white man for one black woman to handle.
But Shaleah was a cat, and she rapped him on the elbow with her nightstick before he could even think about swinging. He howled in shock, and then he howled in pain, and he plopped down on a chair and cradled his arm.
“Slick,” I said with approval.
Shaleah purred and leaned back against the counter.
“Police brutality,” Chip gasped.
“Oh, my Lord, Chip,” I said as I made myself at home on the couch, “who’s gonna believe a big football star like you was beaten up by a woman?”
“She broke my damned arm!”
“Honey,” Shaleah said, her voice as smooth as velvet, “if I’d wanted to break your arm, it’d be dangling down to your knees ’bout now.”
Chip didn’t seem to be in the mood to argue anymore. He rocked a little in his chair, and I asked him again about Facelli’s.
“I picked up a pizza, for Christ’s sake.”
“Long way to go for a pizza,” I said mildly. “Must be four other shops that are closer.”
“I like Facelli’s.”
“When were you there?”
Chip ruefully rubbed his elbow. “Maybe nine o’clock. No later than that.”
“And you brought the pizza back here?”
“Anyone see you there?”
“Obviously,” he said acidly. “You’re here, aren’t you?”
“There must have been a dozen people in there last night. Someone’ll tell you — I just went in, got the pizza and left.”
“You wouldn’t have gone back for seconds, would you?” Shaleah asked. “Say, at closing time?”
Chip glared. “I stayed home the rest of the night.”
“Can you prove it?” I asked.
“I’d rather not,” he said shortly.
I thought of the visitor who was patiently waiting for him in the bedroom and let it pass for the moment. The lady had remarkable restraint. I’d expected her to trot out in alarm when Shaleah had smacked Chip’s elbow, but she hadn’t made a sound.
“Did you know Cindy Reynolds?”
“The blond waitress?”
His face twisted a little. “She rang up my order.”
“Had you seen her before?”
“Just at Facelli’s. She was a nice kid.”
“You didn’t try to put the moves on her, did you?” Shaleah asked pleasantly.
Chip’s mouth looked ready for an ugly reply, but he thought better of it. “She was a nice kid,” he repeated sullenly.
“He struck out,” Shaleah said to me.
Chip’s shoulders twitched, but he kept his mouth shut.
“You’re having a bad year, Chip,” I observed. “Three women dead, and you knew them all. Doesn’t that strike you as odd?”
“I didn’t know Cindy Reynolds. She was just a waitress.”
“And Peggy was just a date, and Michelle was just your roommate’s girlfriend, right?”
I stood. “Lots of coincidences, Chip. I don’t believe in coincidence.”
Shaleah sidestepped to the door. She didn’t turn her back on football players.
“I never touched those girls!” he insisted.
I shrugged and opened the door. “Did they teach you how to shoot a gun in ROTC, Chip?”
It was my parting shot, and it took him by surprise. His mouth dropped open, and he couldn’t answer.
I smiled, and we left.
“He could have done it,” Shaleah decided when we were back in the car. The tough cop was gone. She was a woman again, and she didn’t like big men who tried to throw their weight around.
“His girl is gonna swear he was in bed with her,” I pointed out.
“Comes down to that, we can break her. No little college girl is gonna protect a guy who’s killed three other women.”
“You like Chip better than Dan O’Brien?” I asked as I maneuvered the car out of the parking lot.
“A whole lot better than Dan O’Brien,” she said emphatically. “If O’Brien were in town, we’d know it. Too many people are looking for him.”
I tended to agree. Fifteen years earliler, when a different breed of students had inhabited the campus, Dan might have been able to hide out. But those students had been a mutation, created by heavy-handed drug laws and an aversion to dying overseas. These students didn’t seem inclined to harbor a fugitive.
“You have a vicious nightstick, Lee,” I said in admiration. “How’d you know to use it?”
Shaleah’s smile flashed through the darkness. “It was in his honky eyes.”
“I owe you,” I said.
“I know it,” she said. “Let’s eat.”
The rest of the night was long and uneventful. It gave me plenty of time to go over the day’s reports from Berger and Mulhaney and Henry. Whereas no one had a solid alibi when Peggy and Michelle were killed, everyone seemed to have one for Cindy Reynolds’ murder. Even Al Dexter had been diligently at work in his office. This time, Eddie Corrigan verified it. He had talked to Dexter during his rounds shortly before Cindy was killed, and Dexter’s car had been in the university parking lot when Eddie had heard our dispatcher over the radio, sending backups to the pizza shop. Even I had to admit that Dexter couldn’t have jogged over to Facelli’s in time to rape and kill the girl.
And she had been raped. There wasn’t much doubt when we found her, and Doc Sweitzer confirmed it. His autopsy reports were becoming frightfully monotonous. Cindy had some bruises around her neck and wrists, but otherwise, the report on her could just as easily have been written for Michelle or Peggy. There was evidence of very recent sex. She had been shot in the head at very close range. The bullet had entered from the front; she had seen what was going to happen to her. It was a terrifying way for a nice girl to die.
Mike Edwards had pulled her university records. There were no glaring similarities to the records for Michelle and Peggy. Cindy had been a sophomore, a solid B student. None of her professors this semester had been linked to Michelle or Peggy. Some of her instructors during her freshman year had taught the other women, but they had been eliminated as suspects in the earlier murders. Mike hadn’t yet approached his computer friend to run Cindy’s records against those of Michelle and Peggy to look for a three-way link among male sutdents. I suspected he was waiting for a formal request from Bradley, and as long as Dan O’Brien was at large, I doubted Bradley was going to make it.
Henry had spent a long afternoon with Barb Mason. He labeled her “uncooperative.” I imagined she was simply hysterical. She didn’t budge from her story that she hadn’t seen Dan since Christmas. She swore she had no idea where he could be. She also swore again that he couldn’t have killed anybody, but I was willing to bet that the doubts that had been worming around in her mind had grown to monstrous proportions. I had little hope for Dan and Barb to take up housekeeping again.
The night shift was a conforting place to hide in that week. It shielded me from most of the hell that was being raised by the university and City Hall. The town fathers, who had been relatively reserved when Michelle and Peggy had been killed, were apoplectic over the death of a local girl. The university reached new levels of hysteria. Administrators pointed fingers at politicians, and politicans pointed them right back. Television and radio blared new charges every day; newspapers on and off campus demanded action in screaming headlines. Vigilantes were patrolling the campus at night. I spent more time chasing them than I did chasing the murderer.
The chief was riding Bradley hard. Bradley, in turn, squeezed us — and himself. He didn’t leave until I got in at night, and he was back before I clocked out in the morning. We were all working overtime, and we were all cranky as hell, and not one of us was eating or sleeping on anything resembling a normal schedule. So it wasn’t at all surprising when Bev called Friday morning to say Bradley was too sick with the flu to be allowed out of the house. Bev was a tough little woman, and I imagined she had Bradley strapped down in bed so he couldn’t sneak out to the station.
And I wasn’t really shocked when Mulhaney called me at home that afternoon to say Henry was down with the same thing. Henry hadn’t looked healthy since he had found Cindy Reynolds. Mulhaney offered to cover the first half of Henry’s shift if I’d come in at seven to relieve him. I was supposed to meet Dave for dinner, but I reluctanlty agreed to work instead. I knew Dave would be a big boy and swallow his disappointment.
As it turned out, he didn’t have to swallow anything but an early supper. We met at five at the Farmhouse, and since it was an uncivilized hour for gracious dining, we had a big corner booth to ourselves, where we could talk and tease and take our time over my coffee and his drink. Dave acknowledged that sometimes, it was nice just to talk without groping. I admitted that sometimes, it was nice to forget about murder. So he dominated the conversation with the foibles of his students, and I leaned back in the booth and listened in contentment as his eyes danced and his hands drew great pictures in the air and his beard bristled and smoothed itself out with his moods.
And it was all very nice until Al Dexter dropped a ring of keys onto the table and slid uninvited into my side of the booth.
“Thanks for the loan, buddy,” he said heartily.
I turned questioning eyes on Dave as I scooted up against the wall. He grunted and pocketed the keys. “Al’s car broke down. I let him borrow Darryl’s,” he said to me.
“How nice,” I murmured.
“Lost my whole damn exhaust system — second one in a year,” Dexter complained. “Never buy American.”
I resisted the urge to debate him — I didn’t even want to be in the same building with him — and sipped my coffee instead.
Dexter raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong, Jo? You on the wagon?”
“Going on duty,” I said without much warmth. He was sitting way too close.
Dexter looked genuinely distressed. “I thought the three of us could have some fun,” he lamented, and took a swallow of what looked to be a very strong drink.
“You two have fun,” I said, making a great show of looking at my watch. “I have to work.”
Dave hid his annoyance quite nicely. I didn’t have to relieve Mulhaney for another hour, and he knew it, but he didn’t try to stop me. Maybe he preferred to have me safely out of Dexter’s way.
Dexter gallantly — and noisily — let me out of the booth. It wasn’t a smooth exit, but he apologized profusely for rubbing up against my hip. I purposely turned my back on him so I could kiss Dave goodbye.
He made it a good, lengthy kiss. I think he would have patted my ass, too, just for Dexter’s benefit, but he knew better than to mess with a cop. I carried a gun.
The shift was long and hellish. A third of the uniforms were out with the flu, and the rest should have been. The student body, on the other hand, was disgustingly healthy and rolling merrily through another Friday night downtown. The fact that it was only two degrees outside did nothing to chill their enthusiasm.
Technically, I was the ranking officer on duty and should have stayed at the station, but there were too many youngsters out there getting into too much trouble, so I rode all night with Shaleah. We chased frostbitten drunks and frostbitten drivers and had to pry a few frostbitten passengers out of the icy wreckage of their cars, but at least no one was dead, and that was a distinct relief after Cindy Reynolds. I speculated once that if Dan O’Brien had any sense, he was on a beach somewhere in California by now, but that was the only moment I had all night to think about murder. And that, too, was a distinct relief.
At dawn, I was gleefully planning to sleep through the next twenty-four hours, but Henry called before I got out the station door, and I was roped into covering his afternoon shift for him. I would have protested, but there was no one around to listen. Bradley was still sick, too.
When I got home, I found Jim preparing to lay the linoleum I’d bought for his kitchen. Threats of immediate eviction, possibly accompanied by castration, persuaded him to go to the library instead. I fed the cats, peeled off my clothes and died for six hours.
Dave called as I was leaving for work, drooling about the steaks he’d just bought for dinner. I tried to let him down gently, but when he started bitching about my goddamned never-ending, blood-sucking job, my nerves snapped and I said some rather nasty things myself. I didn’t know who hung up on whom. It was probably simultaneous.
Berger had skated through his shift, leaving most of the paperwork behind, so my mood got only meaner. Halfway through the pile, I found a message to call Michelle’s mother. The last thing I wanted to do was tell that woman that I still didn’t know who had killed her daughter, but somewhere between the third and fourth cups of coffee, I forced myself to do it. She was amazingly gracious, insisting that she hadn’t called to remind me of any unpleasantness. She simply wanted the address of Cindy’s mother, so she could send her condolences. I said she didn’t have to. She said that she did. So I gave her the address and hung up, thoroughly disgusted with myself. She shouldn’t have had to worry about another dead girl’s parents.
Bradley shuffled in about eight. His face was still flushed with fever, and he had the faintly stale odor of illness about him, but he glared when I suggested that he ought to go home. I shut up and let him suffer alone in his office.
He came out once and caught me dozing over my papers. He launched into his usual biting lecture about sleeping on the job and wasting taxpayers’ money, then took a good look at my watery red eyes and told me to go home. I huffily declared that I could stick it out as long as he could. He said he doubted it.
A deep, deep freeze had set in. The youngsters who had braved ten above the night before had enough sense to stay indoors when the thermometer hit ten below at nine o’clock and kept on diving. The patrols had a rash of calls about stranded drivers and one woman in labor whose car wouldn’t start. I told Shaleah as she grimly headed out the door that she finally might have her chance to deliver a baby. Shaleah didn’t think it was funny.
I had so little to do that when a heavily bundled body came trundling into the station, I looked forward to the business. And then I saw it was Al Dexter.
His face was red and roughened by the wind, but his smile would have been appealing if I’d been in the market. As it was, my own smile was barely civil.
“Just sent your old man home, Jo. Said he wasn’t in the mood for drinking.”
“He’s probably tired,” I said stiffly. My “old man,” indeed!
“Lovers’ quarrel?” Dexter chuckled.
“Quarrel?” I repeated inanely, feeling the heavy silence behind me in Bradley’s office.
“Dave won’t drink, he’s mad at somebody,” Dexter said blithely.
“I wouldn’t know. I haven’t seen him since yesterday.”
Dexter’s eyes were amused. “Uh-huh.” He leaned comfortably against the counter. I purposely did not invite him around to the business side.
“What about you, Jo? Feel like a drink?”
Bradley suddenly jiggled his desk drawers. “I’m on duty,” I said hastily.
Dexter was undaunted. “When do you get off?”
“Not till eleven, and then, frankly, I’m going straight home. I’m beat.”
“Ah, Jo — ”
“Honest,” I said, wishing I had the guts to make a scene. I’d rather go drinking with a goat, and I sorely wanted to tell him so, but Bradley was listening, and he’d repeat it to everyone in the station. “I’ve worked two shifts in the last twenty-four hours, and I’m up to my ears in reports. I can’t do it.”
Dexter shook his head sadly. “Can’t you sneak out just a little early?”
I nodded toward Bradley’s office. “No way.”
He caught Bradley’s scowl and accepted defeat. “Okay, lady. Can’t blame a guy for trying.”
I kept the smile pasted on my face until he was safely out the door, then slumped in my chair in relief.
“Jerk,” Bradley said as he settled himself in Henry’s chair.
“Pest,” I admitted.
“Your old man has questionable taste in friends.”
I winced. Dave was going to be my “old man” forever as far as Bradley was concerned. “He’s not Dave’s friend. They share an office. Any jerk can share your office.”
Bradley looked at Berger’s personal effects scattered across my desk and grinned. “No shit.”
I grinned back.
Bradley leaned back in the chair and didn’t look quite as sickly as he had when he had first come in. His eyes were dancing with evil speculation. “Are we sure Dexter’s out of the running for these murders?”
It was a lovely thought, but I didn’t see how he could have done it. “There’s no one to back up his alibi for Michelle and Peggy,” I said, “but Eddie Corrigan saw him Monday night in his office, and after the murder, Eddie saw his car — ” And then I choked.
Bradley raised an eyebrow. “Yes?”
I stared at him. “Oh, my God, his car!”
Bradley wasn’t too impressed. “His car, what?”
“Eddie saw his car in the parking lot, but he didn’t see Dexter.”
“So you think Dexter might have strolled over to the pizza shop and killed Reynolds? Come on, Jo!” Bradley scoffed.
“I don’t think he strolled. I think he drove someone else’s car.” I reached for the phone. “Dear God, Brad, that’s it! He drove Darryl Harrington’s car!”
Bradley was sputtering in confusion, but I shushed him as I dialed Dave’s number. There was no answer.
“How did Harrington get into this?” Bradley demanded.
“Dave is keeping Darryl’s car. He loaned it to Dexter because Dexter’s car broke down. Lost its exhaust system or something.” I dialed my own number, and fidgeted as the phone rang and rang and rang. Dave wasn’t at my house, either.
“When did he have Harrington’s car?” Bradley asked. His ears were clogged and he couldn’t hear, so he barked at me as though I couldn’t hear, either. I leaned my elbows on the desk, clamped my hands over my ears and tried to remember the conversation at dinner the night before. Had anyone mentioned dates?
“I don’t know,” I said. “He reteurned the keys yesterday, but I don’t know when Dave gave him the car.”
Bradley rubbed his jaw. “Reynolds was killed on Monday; Dexter returned the car on Friday. That’s a long time to have his own car in the garage.”
“It wasn’t that long. Eddie saw the car on campus Monday night. It couldn’t have been towed to the garage until Tuesday, at the earliest.”
“Maybe it didn’t break down until Tuesday,” Bradley said doubtfully. “Maybe it was running just fine the night Reynolds died.”
I shook my head. “Damn, I wish I could find Dave!”
“Did you try your house?” Bradley asked cautiously.
“Of course, I tried my house,” I snapped. But I called home again — and Dave’s apartment, and his office, too. There wasn’t an answer anywhere.
Bradley pulled out his files; I pulled out mine and rummaged for references to Dexter.
“He says he was working in his office when Michelle died,” I said. “No one has verified it. He was supposed to be in his office when Peggy died, but he admits his wife went into labor that night and couldn’t find him for a long time. However, he was definitely in his office before Cindy died. Eddie talked to him.”
“He’s in his office a lot,” Bradley observed. “Can Dave confirm any of that?”
“He saw Dexter before he went to class the night Peggy died, but that was at least an hour before she was killed. You remember that class,” I needled him. “The one that cleared Dave?”
Bradley grunted. “Did you check into this business about the baby?”
“His wife had one, if that’s what you mean. They checked into the hospital about midnight.”
“And before that?”
I squirmed. “Well, I didn’t call her up and ask when she finally found him.”
“So we don’t really know where Dexter was from six to midnight the night Rafferty was killed?”
“No,” I admitted.
Bradley’s eyes were angry. “Why the hell not?”
“I dropped it,” I said in a small voice. “There were too many other people to chase.”
Bradley had the courtesy not to bellow. “What are his ties to the victims?” he asked, rather calmly.
“Michelle was in one of his classes this fall. She visited his office at least once. Peggy started a class with him a year ago, but dropped it. No links to Cindy.”
“Maybe he just likes Facelli’s pizza.”
“Does he have the right kind of gun?”
“He didn’t show up on any of Henry’s lists.”
“Does he have any guns? Any interest in guns?”
Bradley pawed through his papers and pulled out Dexter’s military records. “Well, he knows how to shoot one. Combat in Vietnam. Is he linked up to any of the vets’ groups?”
“None.” In the back of my head, I heard Mike Edwards talking: “A vet, Jo. That’s the ticket.”
A vet who looked perfectly sane. I shivered.
Bradley sighed and tossed the files onto Henry’s desk. “It’s not there yet, Jo. We’ve got nothing.”
“We’ve got reason enough to dig deeper.”
“But no reason to haul him in.” Bradley’s fingers drummed nervously on Henry’s desk calendar. “We’re running out of time. It’s been five days since Reynolds was killed. He’s gonna do it agian — soon.”
“I won’t have another girl killed while we sit here on our butts. I want you back in here tomorrow.”
I thought fleetingly of my plans to make amends to Dave and kissed them good-bye.
“I’ll get Henry, too,” Bradley said.
“Henry’s sick.”
“It’s time he recovered, ” Bradley said grimly.
When I clocked out an hour later, Bradley was back in his office, fuming about idiots who couldn’t even handle the mail in his absence. Since I was one of those idiots, I didn’t prolong the good-byes. He was ripping into some handouts from the Army when I slipped out, and the volume of his displeasure was rising.
The night was brittle with cold. The door to the car were iced shut, and I had to crawl in through the hatch back. The engine creaked and wheezed and refused to turn over. I thought of asking Bradley for a ride, but he had looked like he was settling into his office for the night. So I huddled in a frigid car for ten minutes, alternately coaxing it and swearing at it, and staring at the warm yellow light in Bradley’s window, until the engine finally coughed to life and the heater sent a blast of arctic air up my skirt. I clutched the steering wheel with throbbingly cold fingers and the car slid toward home.
The streets were empty, which was just as well, because they were caked with ice. City crews had dumped cinders along the main routes, but the side streets were poor stepchildren, and I skidded crazily as I turned onto my street. My driveway was steep and impassable. Jim’s car was parked on the street in front of the house and, along the row of cars, about four houses down, I thought I saw Dave’s van. That warmed me up enough to slip right into a tight little space behind Jim’s car without one thought about the damage I could have done if I had hit the ice just right.
I tottered up the empty driveway and frowned. I had been wrong about the van. It couldn’t have been Dave’s. If he were home, there would be lights in the apartment, if only from the TV. But my windows were dark, and so were Jim’s. He must have turned in early.
I had the key to the back door in my hand when I saw Jim’s door slightly ajar. I clucked my tongue in irritation. The door was open only an inch or so, but it would still suck at my heating bill. Jim had no respect for my money.
I tried to push his door shut, but itcaught on something — a boot. I bent down to shove it aside and froze. The boot was not empty.
If I hadn’t been a cop, I would have yelped in surprise and called out Jim’s name. And I’d be dead.
But I was a cop, and I silently pulled out my gun and very quietly pulled open Jim’s door.
He was sprawled face down onthe stairs, just as he had fallen. I gingerly touched his back and felt the moist edges of a gaping hole. I ran my fingers up to his neck and felt for a pulse, knowing even as I did it that it was useless. Jim had been dead before he had hit the stairs.
Blood pounded in my ears, and I wanted to take huge gulps of air so I could scream, but the cop in me was already issuing orders, and I automatically responded. I slowly stood and steadied myself against the doorjamb, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the frightening darkness of the stairway. Jim’s body gradually took shape. I could even see the darker darkness of the bullet wound.
The door to my kitchen was open just a crack. I put my ear to the door and listened carefully to the sounds of my house. The refrigerator purred. The furnace rumbled in the basement. Wood beams creaked and sighed in the wind. And maybe someone was breathing on the other side of the door.
I moved cautiously, slowly pulling my feet out of my boots. The floor was painfully cold, and I shivered as I slipped one arm at a time out of my coat and silently lowered it to the floor beside Jim. Then I inched into the kitchen.
Moonlight filtered through the curtains, and I could see the refrigerator and stove looming like charcoal gray ghosts. Shadows lurked on the walls, but they were shadows that belonged there. Nothing moved, and I told myself he was gone.
But telling wasn’t enough. I could feel someone else breathing my air.
I slipped through the kitchen to the dining room. It was my house, and I knew how to move in it without making a sound, how to slip around corners without silhouetting myself against windows. The drawers to my desk were open, and papers had spilled onto the floor. I wondered whether he had found what he was looking for.
He wasn’t in the living room. I licked very dry lips and peered into the dark cave of the hall. He could take me there, but there was no other way to the bedroom and bath.
I should have un out to the car the nand radioed for Bradley, but I was afraid of leaving breathing bodies behind.
So I crept down the hall, fingers gliding over wallpaper as I slowly felt my way, and then I tripped over the cane sticking out of the bedroom door. As I fell into the bedroom, a bullet slammed into the doorjamb, just above my head.
I landed on another body, crumpled on the floor. It broke my fall, but the impace snapped the gun out of my hand. I heard it clatter across the floor. My face grazed a warm, bloody cheek and Dave’s beard, and then I rolled off and scrambled after the gun.
But I couldn’t reach it.
Marty Baker stood in the doorway, and the moonlightgleamed on the gun aimed at my face.
“You shouldn’t have come home,” he said softly.
And the nthe top of his head exploded.
Continue to Chapter Twenty-One
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Says it's Up to the Courts to Settle Dispute with House Dems over Trump's Tax Returns
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that it's up to the courts to referee his dispute with House Democrats demanding access to President Donald Trump's tax returns.
Mnuchin told a Senate panel that the fight between the administration and the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, "will go to the third branch of government to be resolved."
Neal, D-Mass., has subpoenaed six years' worth of Trump's returns with an eye to examining whether Trump is paying all the taxes he owes and whether his web of businesses has created conflicts of interest with his official actions as president. Neal has set a Friday deadline for the IRS to deliver them.
But Mnuchin said that the Treasury Department was unlikely to comply.
"We haven't made a decision but I think you can guess which way we're leaning on our subpoena," Mnuchin said, adding, "I take great comfort that there is a third branch of government to deal with this important issue."
Mnuchin is sticking to earlier arguments that Neal's demand for Trump's taxes would set a precedent that lawmakers could pursue confidential tax information for political purposes. He said Treasury and IRS lawyers agree with his interpretation that a 1924 law that requires him to "furnish" the returns to Neal does not apply in this case because there is no legitimate legislative purpose to Neal's request.
Mnuchin said the tax tussle was "a very important issue that has a precedent way beyond any one president and Congress."
"There is a difference in interpretation between Congress and us and the Department of Justice around this law that not only impacts this president and this Congress but has a very big impact on every single taxpayer in weaponizing the IRS," Mnuchin said. "And this is why there are three branches of government."
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What does luxury mean to you?
For me, it means items that someone has put a lot of effort into perfecting.
Who is your favourite designer and why?
I like to wear Brioni suits – they fit perfectly.
Do you collect anything in particular?
I have a huge selection of caps and am rarely seen without wearing a snapback. I’d also like to start investing in cars.
Dream drive?
A 1967 Shelby Mustang. It’s the car from Gone In 60 Seconds, which is one of my favourite films ever. At some point I’m going to try to own one.
What’s your go-to watch?
The Hublot Big Bang Unico in yellow gold. It’s my third signature watch from Hublot and I love it because it really pops on my skin. I asked them to make something that stands out and represents my personality. I’m all about the gold, so it works!
Usain Bolt’s signature celebratory pose “To Di World”
Photo: Ververidis Vasilis
If you could design your ideal home where would it be?
A big house near the beach on the north coast of Jamaica, near where I grew up, so I could wake up every day and see the sea. It would be modern in style with lots of glass to make the most of the view.
What artist’s work would you love hanging on your wall?
I have a couple of pieces by one of Jamaica’s most famous painters, Barrington Watson, and would love to collect more.
Which chef would you ask to make your last supper?
Jamie Oliver. I follow him on Instagram and I’ve met him a few times, he’s a cool guy. I’d have him make me any pork dish.
Your favourite view in the world?
I went to The Pitons in St Lucia when I was 21 and the sight of these twin mountains from the cliffside is something that has really stuck with me.
Where’s your ultimate luxury escape?
In terms of hotels, it’s the Four Seasons at Bora Bora. I went there last year with my girlfriend and even though it’s far away it’s worth it. There are these outdoor loungers by the pool where I slept every day; that was my dream spot!
Are there any of life’s ‘luxuries’ that are necessities for you?
No, I am happy to keep it real when I have to.
Rio de Janeiro-Brazil August 17, 2014, Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters race during event on Copacabana beach. Photo: A.RICARDO
Profile | Usain Bolt
Born: 21 August 1986 in Sherwood, Jamaica. His parents ran a general store in the village. He has an older half-sister, Sherine, and younger half-brother, SadikiBorn: 21 August 1986 in Sherwood, Jamaica. His parents ran a general store in the village. He has an older half-sister, Sherine, and younger half-brother, Sadiki
Childhood: An average pupil, his main interests were in cricket and football. He later won a scholarship to the IAAF High Performance Training Centre in Jamaica
Early career: Aged 15, Bolt made his debut at the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica, where he won the 200m
Medals: Eight Olympic and 11 World Championship gold medals. He was stripped of one of his nine Olympic titles after his Jamaican 4x100m team-mate, with whom he won gold at the 2008 Beijing Games, tested positive for a banned substance.
World Records: In 2009 Bolt became the world record holder in the 100 and 200m: Event World record time 100m 9.58 seconds 200m 19.19 seconds
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Kumnooh: arts guide for Cambodia, week commencing 9 August 2016
August 9, 2016 by scoddy
Tonight, Tuesday 9, 7 pm at microgallery N o w h e r e (St 312) there will be an artist’s talk by Lomorpich Rithy, aka YoKi Cöcö, independent filmmaker, director/founder of Plerng Kob, a collaborative arts community, and a highly active participant in the arts in Cambodia, about her artistic journey and the future of the arts in this country. Seating limited – $3 per person, with proceeds to Sovannaphum Arts Association.
On Wednesday 10 from 6 pm, Meta House presents a new exhibition by Cambodian painter Chhim Sothy, YEAR 41, a reflection on his survival of the Khmer Rouge years and subsequent efforts to overcome trauma and contribute to the on-going reconciliation process in Cambodia.
On Wednesday 10, ARTillery Café’s evening workshop series Easels in the Alley will be presented by Kosal Khiev. Spaces limited – $35 a head includes all materials, tapas and a glass of wine. 7 pm start.
At Sa Sa Bassac (#18 E2 Sothearos Blvd, near Wat Ounalom) on Thursday 11, from 6 pm, a lecture by Vera May entitled The Apsara as the Symbol of the Region: Shui Tit Sing and the Ten Men Art Group in Cambodia. Shui Tit Sing was a member of the Ten Men Art Group, a group of Chinese artists based in Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s, who visited Cambodia in 1963. The lecture is part of an on-going exhibition, Singapore Art Archive Project. Khmer language event with English interpretation.
On Friday 12 from 6 pm, Cloud (St 9) presents MONSTA MASH, a pop up show from first year students of the professional design program at LIMKOKWING University. “Working with broken and discarded toys & figures appropriated in local thrift stores, students will present their reconstructed creations in the form of spray painted stencils, illustrations and photos; alongside the original toys themselves.” Runs until Saturday night.
On Saturday 13 at 10 am, Meta House presents a performance of The Courageous Turtle, the educational theatre project to enhance knowledge and awareness of the Khmer Rouge years in Cambodian classrooms. In Khmer with English subtitles. Free entrance, but limited seating: please register via mesterharm [@] gmx.net.
Also on Sunday 14, N o w h e r e (St 312) offers two workshops (rubber stamps for beginners and brush lettering for beginners) and an artist talk. At 11 am Syahrulfikri Salleh presents Quit Your Job, Travel the World & Make Art. Workshops follow at 12.30 pm – 3 pm and 4 pm – 7 pm.
Also on Sunday 14, Drink and Draw at Show Box from 7 pm. Two hours with a life model for $3. BYO materials.
And finally on Sunday 14 at 8 pm, the Classical Music Concert Series at Meta House presents Schubertiade: Art-songs and piano works by Franz Schubert and poetry readings of the Weimar Classic and German Romanticism, featuring lyric baritone Ong Wei Shen Keane, pianist Serene Koh, and students from the Goethe Language School. $10/$3. Reservation and additional information: 077 787038 / 016 985828
This month Design Kompany hosts Rooftop Philosophy in Phnom Penh, a guided conversation and chance to meet to talk about things that aren’t boring. RSVP required. Participation fee: $10. Full details by contacting Design Kompany here.
Tuesday 9, 7 pm at N o w h e r e (St 312) an artist’s talk by Lomorpich Rithy, aka YoKi Cöcö, independent filmmaker, director/founder of Plerng Kob, a collaborative arts community. Seating limited – $3 per person.
Wednesday 10, 6 pm, Meta House presents a new exhibition by Cambodian painter Chhim Sothy, YEAR 41, a reflection on his survival of the Khmer Rouge years.
Wednesday 10, 7 pm at ARTillery Café, evening art workshop Easels in the Alley will be presented by Kosal Khiev. Spaces limited.
Thursday 11, 6 pm at Sa Sa Bassac (#18 E2 Sothearos Blvd, near Wat Ounalom), a lecture by Vera May entitled The Apsara as the Symbol of the Region: Shui Tit Sing and the Ten Men Art Group in Cambodia. Khmer language event with English interpretation.
Friday 12, 6 pm, Cloud (St 9) presents MONSTA MASH, a pop up show from first year students of the professional design program at LIMKOKWING University.
Saturday 13, 10 am, Meta House presents a performance of The Courageous Turtle, the educational theatre project to enhance knowledge and awareness of the Khmer Rouge years in Cambodian classrooms. Limited seating: please register via mesterharm [@] gmx.net.
Sunday 14, 8.30 am, Khmer Architecture Tours presents Central Phnom Penh by Cyclo. Reservations required, email contact [@] ka-tours.org.
Sunday 14, 11 am at N o w h e r e (St 312), an artist talk by Syahrulfikri Salleh: Quit Your Job, Travel the World & Make Art.
Sunday 14, 12.30 pm – 3 pm, N o w h e r e (St 312) offers a workshop on rubber stamps for beginners.
Sunday 14, 4 pm – 7 pm, N o w h e r e (St 312) a workshop on brush lettering for beginners.
Sunday 14, Drink and Draw at Show Box from 7 pm. Two hours with a life model for $3. BYO materials.
Sunday 14, 8 pm, the Classical Music Concert Series at Meta House presents Schubertiade: art-songs and piano works by Franz Schubert and German poetry readings. $10/$3. Reservation and additional information: 077 787038 / 016 985828
The Phnom Penh Writers Workshop holds events every second Sunday afternoon for Phnom Penh writers who are interested in discussion and critique of their works in progress. Next event, August 14. If you would like to be involved, please contact Claire (clairemarchantcollier [ @ ] gmail.com or John john.christopher.brown [ @ ] gmail.com.
Java Independence hosts Heng Ravuth’s exhibition Drunk Nude, continuing the artist’s use of the nude, here using self portraiture to create a “collage-like texture and surface”. The show runs until 30 September.
Meta House presents Upcycling, a photographic exhibition by French filmmaker and activist Julien Thomas, who leads ecological projects for school children in Cambodia and Vietnam.
At The Lotus Pond Gallery at The Plantation is T’banh (Woven), a collection of works produced by members of The Plantation staff in a series of art classes and workshops. Featured artists are Lim Vichea, Sos Fary, Chan Borey, Sek Sorphorn, Keut Sokchamroeun, Toun Sophea, Munos Marie, Ouk Channa, Koeut Socheat, Touch Lida and Mao Tongsin.
At the National Museum, Histories of the future, an exhibition curated by Dana Langlois showcasing Cambodia’s contemporary art links with Australia.
The French Institute presents a photographic exhibition, Voyage into the heart of Cambodia, in collaboration with the Angkor Photo Festival, featuring 40 historic images from the French School of Asian Studies. Until 20 August.
The Asia Foundation’s Community Art Gallery (#59, Street 242) presents Lane, a solo art exhibition by multi-media artist Meas Sokhorn, using a sculptural installation to critique the problems of Phnom Penh traffic. Until 18 August.
Plae Pakaa, a program of 3 rotating performances of Cambodian traditional arts at the National Museum of Phnom Penh. Friday is a dance show, Saturday opera, and Sunday large shadow puppets. A Cambodian Living Arts production. Every Friday and Saturday, 7 pm (May to September); Monday to Saturday, 7 pm (October to April).
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Spanish Landscape Architecture: Alcazar of Sevilla Gardens
By Sixto D. Lozano on March 17, 2015 No Comments / 1438 views
Have you ever been in a garden built along 1100 years? Many gardening styles can be appreciated in the Alcazar of Sevilla, it is like a history book.
It is known Muslim heritage in architecture and gardening in Spanish cities like Cordoba and Granada, but there are other places where we can appreciate the detail, elegance and splendor of this artistic style. When we travel to sunny Sevilla we can not miss the Real Alcazar, it is dated back to the tenth century and declared World Heritage Site, with over a thousand years of history, it is the older Royal palace in active in all Europe. All architectural and gardening styles from the Muslim era in the Iberian Peninsula to the twentieth century are reflected in one way or another in the evolution of the building.
Door of the Lion
The Real Alcazar of Sevilla is a great monument of immense beauty. Its palaces and gardens manifest the wisdom, character and sensitivity of this city. The gardens of the Alcazar are a compendium of the history of gardening, all of them are structured by an Arab structure set on the primitive Andalusian gardens of the original “alqsar”, an Arabic word meaning “the royal house or room of the prince”. In mid-fourteenth century the king of Castilla Pedro I “the Cruel” ordered the remodeling of the building and grounds making use of Arab artists, reaching the Moorish appearance, it is now preserved and amazed by its richness and ornamentation.
Patio of the Ladies
The appearance of the grounds is different from the Alhambra of Granada, here they are bright and spacious gardens with a geometric pattern of closed areas, respecting the privacy of the human scale, successive spaces communicate with each other through gates and fences, urging us to cross them. With the passage of time the old orchards were transformed into exquisite gardens gratifying the senses, always accompanied by water, it is a symbol of purity which gives exuberance and radiance to the vegetation. Water always accompanies our ride with its sound, running through ditches and canals, appearing relaxed in the many pools or trembling in delicate sprays, it appears more sound in Renaissance fountains and grottos later time.
“Alberca” of Marchena Door
The gently sloping terrain creates staggered spaces from which we can observe the extent of the gardens, the visitor is surprised by effects and views on other spaces. The gardens descend to the river Guadalquivir on three terraces. The first terrace is composed of three small courtyards where we can appreciate the more refined Mediterranean garden with all elements of Arabic landscaping, water, walls, pavements and drawings of clay tiles that cover pools and fountains. The vegetation here is typical Mediterranean vegetation, cypress, magnolia, lemon, orange, boxwood and myrtle.
Patio of Levies
Garden of Prince
The second terrace attached to the palace, is a grid divided by hedges of boxwood, with sources sited at crossings. It is the busiest, where tourists gather outside the building before entering the grounds. In the third terrace spaces are broader with traces of later times, King Carlos V left his mark here building a delicate pavilion fully integrated into the landscape of the environment.
Carlos V pavillion
Interior of Carlos V pavillion
Other gardens were built with an Italian Mannerist style in the early seventeenth century. From this period are the Mercury Pond, originally irrigation pool, the Garden of the Ladies and the Gallery of the Grotesque that transformed the Muslim wall creating a large elevated walkway, from which visitors contemplate the whole of the monument and even the Cathedral. Also the English landscape style has its place with plenty of trees, the Garden of English, and more recently, as the French style in the Garden of Poets.
Mercury Pond
Fountain of the Fame
View from the Gallery of the Grotesque
Garden of the Poets
There are other examples of Hispano-Arabian gardening in the city, including the magnificent Patio de los Naranjos in the Cathedral, but it is in small inserts courtyards inside the Sevillian houses where we perceive the spirit and topicality of the Mediterranean gardening style.
“Patio de los Naranjos” in the cathedral
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WORK AHEAD: Noosa Pirates new coach Brett Winkler - looking for a new approach to the coming rugby league scene. Peter Gardiner
Pirates looking to plunder as coach keen to ship in players
by Peter Gardiner
21st Feb 2019 12:11 PM
NOOSA Pirates have primed themselves for a big rugby league season by hitting the beachfront to be put through their paces by the Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club fitness gurus.
Under newly appointed and experience A grade coach Brett Winkler, the Pirates a looking to shed last season's below par performances and muscle up right from the first starting whistle.
However Winkler knows he needs a few more quality "cattle” to help keep the diehard Pirates fans cheering through the long, hard season.
"I'm going to have a fairly young team this year, so it's going to be the land of opportunity.
"So if any younger guys want to step up and play, they're going to get a shot at the title.”
Winkler said the Pirates have had a good preseason with reasonable numbers fronting "but the main thing is we've just need to get more people aboard the Pirate ship”.
"We're probably about three or four good players short of where we want, but we also need the squad depth with good players in A grade and reserve grade.
"When you get a few injuries you need guys to come up. Our Under 18s have been training well, we just need to build up senior numbers.”
Winkler said the club is right behind his push to look at the long-term and develop a cohesive squad based on realising the potential of the young players coming through.
"What we're doing is building a different culture within the club. If there are some reserve grade guys who want to be competitive and play the highest level they can, we're geared to do that. That's certainly what A grade is going to be about. So we've got some new players coming in the club from outside the area, so that's got to be good, but we really want to build that pool of local players.”
The club's first and only trial is at Pirate Park on March 2 against Toowoomba South with two seniors and and Under 18 side in action against Noosa with junior trials throughout the day.
"It's a big day for the club,” Winkler said.
For any player keen to join jump online at Noosa Pirates Rugby League Club Facebook page and send a private message or phone club president Greg Christensen on 0410 528 258. Meanwhile, the Pirates girls rugby league U14 and U16 teams need more players for the season ahead. Any girls who are 12-16yrs interested in playing, contact Jaymie 0407 639 731 jaymiels77@gmail.com or come to training Tuesday and Thursday at Cooroy 5pm.
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Increases in perinatal mortality in prefectures contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan
A spatially stratified longitudinal study
Scherb, Hagen Heinrich, Dr rer nat Dipl-Matha,*; Mori, Kuniyoshi, MDb; Hayashi, Keiji, MDc
Section Editor(s): Leischik., Roman
Medicine: September 2016 - Volume 95 - Issue 38 - p e4958
doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004958
Research Article: Observational Study
Descriptive observational studies showed upward jumps in secular European perinatal mortality trends after Chernobyl. The question arises whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident entailed similar phenomena in Japan. For 47 prefectures representing 15.2 million births from 2001 to 2014, the Japanese government provides monthly statistics on 69,171 cases of perinatal death of the fetus or the newborn after 22 weeks of pregnancy to 7 days after birth. Employing change-point methodology for detecting alterations in longitudinal data, we analyzed time trends in perinatal mortality in the Japanese prefectures stratified by exposure to estimate and test potential increases in perinatal death proportions after Fukushima possibly associated with the earthquake, the tsunami, or the estimated radiation exposure. Areas with moderate to high levels of radiation were compared with less exposed and unaffected areas, as were highly contaminated areas hit versus untroubled by the earthquake and the tsunami. Ten months after the earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent nuclear accident, perinatal mortality in 6 severely contaminated prefectures jumped up from January 2012 onward: jump odds ratio 1.156; 95% confidence interval (1.061, 1.259), P-value 0.0009. There were slight increases in areas with moderate levels of contamination and no increases in the rest of Japan. In severely contaminated areas, the increases of perinatal mortality 10 months after Fukushima were essentially independent of the numbers of dead and missing due to the earthquake and the tsunami. Perinatal mortality in areas contaminated with radioactive substances started to increase 10 months after the nuclear accident relative to the prevailing and stable secular downward trend. These results are consistent with findings in Europe after Chernobyl. Since observational studies as the one presented here may suggest but cannot prove causality because of unknown and uncontrolled factors or confounders, intensified research in various scientific disciplines is urgently needed to better qualify and quantify the association of natural and artificial environmental radiation with detrimental genetic health effects at the population level.
aHelmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany
bHigashiosaka Health Center 4-3-22 Iwatachou, Higashiosakacity
cHayashi Children's Clinic, Osaka, Japan.
Correspondence: Hagen Heinrich Scherb, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany (e-mail: scherb@helmholtz-muenchen.de).
Abbreviations: CP = change-point, O = odds, OR = odds ratio, PD = perinatal death, SAS = Statistical Analysis System, software produced by SAS Institute Inc., TEPCO = Tokyo Electric Power Company.
The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Received June 29, 2016
Received in revised form August 22, 2016
Accepted September 2, 2016
2 Methods
After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011, the destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant released radioactive elements with an estimated total activity of 900 PBq (Peta-Becquerel) into the atmosphere.[1] The World Health Organization estimates that the rates of all solid cancers in male and female infants who were exposed to radiation at the age of one in Namie-Machi in the Fukushima prefecture, a highly contaminated area, would increase by 14% and 24% in 15 years, and that the rates of leukemia would increase by 83% and 57%, respectively.[2] Moreover, the World Health Organization estimates that the rates of thyroid cancer among those males and females would increase 7.4 and 9 times, respectively, and suggests increases in breast cancer as well.[2]
Disorders that may occur in irradiated fetuses include cancer and principal radiation injuries.[3] Due to the vulnerability of the embryo and the fetus, concerns have been raised that even the low dose energy transfer to developing tissue by the frequency magnetic field exposure during ultrasound examinations might entail some health risk.[4] As early as in 1958, UNSCEAR acknowledged that an increase in the frequency of radiation induced dominant mutations associated with visible effects would manifest itself to some unknown extent as an increase in the frequency of malformations and stillbirths.[5] In 10% of the miscarriages, a genetic defect may cause a baby to be stillborn or to die shortly after birth (perinatal death [PD]), possibly since a vital organ has not developed properly. UNSCEAR emphasizes that increases in stillbirth and changes in the sex ratio are easily observable criteria (http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/publications/1958.html). Lethal mutations in humans[5,6] may, therefore, be observed in several ways: increase in frequencies of miscarriages, perinatal mortality, stillbirths, reduction in fertility, sterility, and disturbance in the ratio of the sexes at birth. A variety of such detrimental reproductive effects, including early childhood cancers, after occupational, diagnostic, therapeutic, and environmental exposures, have been investigated and reported in the scientific literature:
Atomic bombing of Japan[7–9]
Windscale/Sellafield nuclear processing plant fire[10,11]
Occupational exposure[12–16]
Diagnostic and therapeutic exposure[17–20]
Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident[21–33]
Fukushima nuclear power plant accident[34,35]
Background radiation[36–38]
Living near nuclear facilities[9,39–42]
Tsuda et al[43] reported that there was an increase in thyroid cancer morbidity after the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant accident, which suggests an influence of radiation exposure. However, the findings by Tsuda et al have been criticized for presumably being artifacts of a screening effect.[44] Following the nuclear accident in Fukushima and based on data from 2002 to 2013, increases in the numbers of spontaneous fetal deaths,[34] as well as an increase in the number of infant deaths[35] were reported. However, to date there are no reports of increased PDs in Japan, even though they have been reported in the case of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.[23,27]
Based on more comprehensive and more recent data from 2001 to 2014, we aim to examine whether or not there were increases in perinatal mortality in areas contaminated with radioactive substances in Fukushima prefecture following the nuclear accident. The Fukushima accident differs from the one at Chernobyl since people in Japan were additionally affected by the earthquake and the tsunami. Therefore, we also examine whether there are associations between the earthquake, the tsunami, radiation, and perinatal mortality overall and in moderately and highly contaminated prefectures.
The Japanese Statistics Bureau publishes demographic statistics including the monthly numbers of live births and PDs created by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Six prefectures – Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma – were classed as severely contaminated; they include wide areas in which the radiation dose in the air was higher than 0.25 μSv/h (micro-Sieverts per hour), according to a map documenting estimated radiation doses as of December 2011.[45] Chiba, Tokyo, and Saitama prefectures were designated as moderately contaminated areas that involve only few areas where the radiation dose in the air was higher than 0.25 μSv/h. The rest of Japan (38 prefectures) excluding severely and moderately contaminated areas was considered not or only slightly affected. Figure 1 is a map of Japan with the selected prefectures grouped according to the estimated radiation exposure. Table 1 lists the live births and the PD cases stratified by year and prefecture group according to the defined contamination levels. Note, the smaller moderately exposed area represents approximately twice the population of the much larger highly contaminated area.
To examine the potential influences of the earthquake and the tsunami as well as the possible effects of radiation contamination, the 6 prefectures designated as severely contaminated were divided into group 1: Iwate (the number of deaths and missing due to the tsunami as of March 11, 2016: n = 5797) and Miyagi (n = 10,777), in which the numbers of the dead and missing were high; and group 2: Fukushima (n = 1810), Ibaraki (n = 25), Tochigi (n = 4), and Gunma (n = 1), in which the numbers of the dead and the missing were more than 20 times lower compared to the areas heavily hit, see Table 2.[46] Monthly perinatal mortalities for those 2 groups were calculated based on the available monthly numbers of births and PDs to analyze a possible association between tsunami intensity and PD.
Temporality and biologic gradient are 2 indispensable requisites for inferring causality. Temporality means that the presumable cause precedes the observed effect in time, and biologic gradient refers to the presence of an exposure–response association.[47,48] Consequently, we investigate whether there are changes in perinatal mortality trends after Fukushima and whether those changes, if any, are associated with the level of contamination. To this end, we applied linear logistic regression allowing for jumps at certain time lags (in months) after the tsunami to model perinatal mortality trends and to test for trend changes possibly associated with contamination. We denote the number of PDs by n, the number of total birth by N, and the estimated PD proportion as p = n/N. Two central parameters in this context are the odds O = n/(N − n), and the odds ratio OR = O1/O0 = n1/(N1 − n1)/(n0/(N0 − n0)), which is the ratio of the odds for 2 populations with O1 and O0 to be compared, for example, in exposed versus nonexposed strata. The dummy variable for the time window from T onward, for example, T = January 2012, is defined as dT (t) = 0 for t < T and dT (t) = 1 for t ≥ T. The distributional assumption and the parsimonious logistic jump model for a trend in t and a jump in T are:
In formula (1), t denotes time (year and month), nt the number of PD in t, Nt the number of total births in t, and πt is the probability of PD in t. If time t is significant in a certain setting it may be considered a confounder as it is associated with the outcome variable “perinatal death” as well as with the exposure classed “before versus after Fukushima.” Note that the assumption of a binomial distribution implies that the variances of the random variables are determined by the binomial parameter π. In practice, the estimated sample variances are smaller or larger than theory predicts (heterogeneity) for randomness or for unknown reasons, for example, unspecified or unknown covariables. Underdispersion may be due to correlated variables, over-fitting, or over-adjustment. Overdispersion may be a consequence of relevant variables missing in the corresponding model. Therefore, statistical models can be generalized by introducing a heterogeneity parameter, and, to be conservative in this respect, we will allow for this extension in the case of overdispersion but never in the case of underdispersion.[48] For example, the data and models in Figs. 3–5 involve only minor heterogeneity: deviance/(degree of freedom) 0.951, 1.124, and 0.998, respectively. In Statistical Analysis System, software produced by SAS Institute Inc. (SAS), for example, correction for oversdispersion may be invoked by the option “…/scale = d” in the model statement of the “procedure logistic.” The basic model in formula (1) will be complemented by further variables, for example, confounders, including appropriate interactions to estimate or to account for the effects of interesting periods or seasonality, that is, the month-to-month variation, or the immediate or possible late effects of the tsunami. For the Japanese monthly PD trend functions, a change-point (CP) analysis[49,50] based on logistic regression and the minimum deviance criterion (goodness of fit) is carried out. The deviance for a logistic model is defined in equation (2).
The purpose of the CP method is to estimate an optimum point in time, if any exists, when the occurrence of PDs after Fukushima changes its trend. The data in this study were processed with Microsoft Excel 2010. For statistical analyses, we used MATHEMATICA 10.4 and SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc.: SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 9.4, Cary NC: SAS Institute Inc., 2012). Ethical approval for this study was not necessary as only publicly available documents and data are being used.
For the monthly PD trend function in the 6 severely contaminated prefectures, a CP analysis based on logistic regression and the minimum deviance criterion (goodness of fit) is carried out in Fig. 2.[49,50] The deviance (2) of a model of type (1) with parallel trends and a possible downward or upward jump in a given month between January 2008 and December 2014 is plotted against that month in Fig. 2. This CP analysis discloses a unique and significant upward jump of the perinatal mortality in January 2012 with minimum deviance among all other months from the beginning of 2008 to the end of 2014. For comparison, we included in Fig. 2 the deviance curve for the 3 moderately contaminated prefectures. No single distinct CP can be identified for those less affected parts of Japan. The deviance analyses are most informative for approximately balanced time periods before or after the assumed “event.” Therefore, the analysis of the period prior to 2008 is of minor interest in the context of our paper that puts emphasis on the year 2011 of the Fukushima accident. The CP analysis in Fig. 2 is so to speak a comprehensive sensitivity analysis as it allows for a wide range of potential jump dates and emphasizes the optimum one, which is, here, the optimum time lag of 10 months between the effect and the foregoing event, that is, the Fukushima accident followed by an upward jump in perinatal mortality.
Figure 3 presents monthly perinatal mortality in the 6 severely contaminated prefectures: Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Iwate, Miyagi, and Tochigi. The annual perinatal mortality proportions are subject to a rather uniform decrease from 2001 to 2014. Perinatal mortality proportions decline with an OR per year of 0.960; (0.952, 0.968). However, estimating a jump 10 months after the Fukushima accident (see Fig. 2) yields the upward jump OR 1.156; (1.061, 1.259). To concretize this effect, the jump in the perinatal mortality proportion from January 2012 to December 2014 may be translated into 165 (66, 278) excess PD cases. Adjusting the parsimonious basic model (1) for seasonality by including independent dummy variables for the months February to December yields practically the same estimates: trend ORadjusted = 0.961; (0.953, 0.968); jump ORadjusted 1.150; (1.055, 1.253). To estimate the presumable immediate effect of the earthquake and the tsunami in the 6 contaminated prefectures in March and April 2011 we include in model (1) the independent dummies for February to December and the interaction of those dummies for March and April (for any year) with the dummy variable for the year 2011. It appears that the perinatal mortality in the 6 contaminated prefectures in March and April 2011 is increased by approximately 20% compared to March and April of the remaining years: OR 1.202; (0.959, 1.506). This may be anticipated from Fig. 3 by inspection of the somewhat elevated perinatal mortality in March 2011.
Figure 4 presents monthly perinatal mortality in the 3 moderately contaminated prefectures: Chiba, Saitama, and Tokyo. The overall trend is similar to the one in Fig. 3. In Fig. 4, perinatal mortality proportions decline with an OR per year of 0.960 (0.954, 0.966). The estimated jump 10 months after the Fukushima accident yields an OR of 1.068 (1.001, 1.139). This effect translates into 153 (10, 309) excess PD cases. The effect estimate is nearly half the value in the highly contaminated prefectures. Combining the data from Figs. 3 and 4 yields an overall and more accurate estimate of the presumable total excess PDs in Japan from January 2012 to December 2014 of 318 cases with 95%-confidence limits of (136, 519). Interestingly, the downward trends in perinatal mortality in the contaminated prefectures continue after Fukushima, however, at somewhat elevated levels.
The monthly perinatal mortality in the rest of Japan, that is, Japan excluding the 6 severely and 3 moderately affected prefectures dealt with above, is shown in Fig. 5. The overall trend is again similar to the ones in Figs. 3 and 4. In the unaffected Japan, the perinatal mortality declines with an OR per year of 0.971 (968, 0.974), and in contrast to the 9 contaminated prefectures, there is no discernible jump 10 months after Fukushima: OR 0.991 (0.958, 1.024).
Figures 6 and 7 present the perinatal mortality trends in the 6 severely contaminated prefectures stratified by the impact of the earthquake and the tsunami according to Table 2. In the 4 less tsunami-impacted prefectures Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, and Tochigi, the secular downward trend is consistent with the overall trends in the 6 severely and 3 moderately contaminated prefectures with an OR of 0.961 (0.952, 0.970). The jump OR 1.175 (1.062, 1.301) in Fig. 6 is also consistent with the one based on the 6 severely contaminated prefectures in Fig. 3. In Fig. 7, representing the perinatal mortality in the 2 severely contaminated prefectures strongly impacted by the tsunami, we can see a similar downward trend and jump from January 2012 onward compared to the situation in Fig. 6. Additionally, in Fig. 7 we observe an uptick of the perinatal mortality already in March and April 2011 that can be attributed to the immediate impact of the earthquake and the tsunami. The OR of this peak in the seasonally adjusted trend model is 1.479 (1.013, 2.161) and the jump OR is 1.132 (0.960, 1.3334), which is consistent with the jumps in January 2012 in Figs. 3 and 6. It is interesting to note that the perinatal mortality decreased after this uptick in March/April 2011 and increased again 10 months after those natural and technical disasters in January 2012. In conclusion, the tsunami does not confound the association of PD with the presumed radiation exposure.
We investigated monthly perinatal mortality in Japan for the years 2001 to 2014 with emphasis on detrimental pregnancy outcome possibly caused by the earthquake, the tsunami, or the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. In the 2 severely contaminated prefectures Iwate and Miyagi that were also heavily hit by the tsunami, there was a more than 50% increase in perinatal mortality in March and April 2011, and there was essentially no increase in the remainder of the year 2011. By contrast, looking at the 4 other severely radioactively affected prefectures (Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma), which remained nearly untroubled after the natural disasters, we see essentially no increase in the occurrence of PDs in March and April 2011, and this applies to the rest of that year as well. In addition to the short-term effects in March and April 2011 in all those 6 severely radioactively contaminated prefectures, however, we observed distinct long-term increases in perinatal mortality of approximately 15% from January 2012 onward. Furthermore, in the 3 moderately exposed prefectures Chiba, Saitama, and Tokyo there is a long-term relative 6.8% increase in perinatal mortality after January 2012, and there is apparently no impact on perinatal mortality in Japan excluding the severely and moderately affected prefectures, neither by the earthquake and the tsunami nor by the Fukushima accident.
Although the present study is of an ecological type based on highly aggregated data that cannot prove causality in principle, it nevertheless provides some evidence of causality according to the well-known Bradford-Hill criteria: temporality and biologic gradient. The observed effects occur 10 months after the possible cause (ionizing radiation). This suggests impact primarily on ovum and sperm and less on the embryo or the fetus. Moreover, the PD increases show a certain dose–response association with the presumable exposure: unaffected as well as moderately and severely impacted prefectures are associated with no, medium, and maximum effects, respectively. The observed optimum overall time-lag of 10 months between the radiological event and the jump in the PD proportion may be explained by the superposition of the periods necessary for the dispersal of the radioactivity (several weeks) and the pregnancy length. Note that the duration of pregnancies at elevated risk of adverse perinatal outcome may be considerably shorter than the usual 9 months.
Similar spatiotemporal associations between a nuclear accident and subsequent detrimental reproductive effects have been previously found in Europe after Chernobyl. A time trend analysis of German perinatal mortality (1980–1993) disclosed a 4.8% increase in 1987, that may be linked to the Chernobyl accident in 1986.[23] Higher contaminated parts of Germany, Bavaria and the former German Democratic Republic, showed perinatal mortality increases of 8.5% and 8.2%, respectively.[27] Significant ecological relative risks in the range of 1.005 to 1.020 per kBq/m2. 137Cs (kilo-Becquerel per square meter [kBq/m], Cesium [Cs]) for stillbirths and congenital malformations in Germany and Finland as well as relatively increased stillbirth proportions across Europe were also seen after Chernobyl.[26,31,51]
A major limitation of this study is the highly aggregated nature of the data considered impeding causal inference in principle. The only potential confounding variables controlled for were time (secular trend), seasonality (month-to-month variation), and the tsunami itself. Otherwise, we are not aware of any monthly statistics on a prefecture-by-prefecture basis that reflects possible confounding variables like stresses to pregnant women and any other risk factors for PD that could be linked to the PD occurrence in Japan before and after Fukushima. Ideally, population based data on perinatal risk factors will be generated to complement future investigations. Another problem is whether the displacement of the population during the Tsunami and the nuclear accident might have confounded our results and conclusions. We are again not aware of any data concerning this issue. However, if young parents have been exposed and put at a higher risk for untoward pregnancy outcome prior to displacement, this could have biased our effect estimates downward, as corresponding PDs would have been counted in the “unexposed” prefectures (exposure misclassification).
In view of the detrimental reproductive effects in Europe after Chernobyl, and acknowledging the observed tentative spatiotemporal ecological dose–response association between radiation exposure and perinatal mortality 10 months after Fukushima, we conjecture that the increases of PDs in the radioactively contaminated prefectures in Japan may possibly be due to radioactive releases by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. It will be interesting to more precisely monitor the future temporal development of the various reproductive outcome measures in Japan stratified by radiological exposure to weaken or to corroborate our findings and conclusions.
As the Japanese Government plans to let inhabitants return to areas prospectively exposed to radiation by less than 20 mSv/a (milli-Sieverts per year), our findings are relevant for the resettlement of people formerly evacuated from the highly contaminated zone, see http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/rev-plan-3.html. The “Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion”[52] emphasizes that political responsibility is needed and that global and environmental factors play an important role in the care for public health. To take political responsibility requires full and continuous access to information, learning opportunities in the various environmental health research disciplines, as well as adequate funding support for ecological, environmental, and medical investigations.[53]
The authors thank the Editors of ‘Epidemiology’ and ‘Medicine’ for general support and 6 reviewers for detailed critical and constructive suggestions on earlier drafts. The authors also thank Shinobu Katsuragi for her valuable moderation and translation that supported and greatly facilitated the communication between the Japanese authors and the German author.
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Bookshots: 'Shirley' by Susan Scarf Merrell
Review by Cath Murphy June 12, 2014 2 comments
Bookshots
Susan Scarf Merrell
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review
Who wrote it?
Up to this point, we’re heading in the direction of a straightforward mystery, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But then Merrell manages, in a masterly, Jacksonesque way, to skew the story into something else entirely.
Susan Scarf Merrell – novelist and fiction editor of TSR.
Plot in a Box:
A young couple move in with author Shirley Jackson and her philandering husband Stanley in the months shortly before the writer’s untimely death at the age of 48.
Invent a new title for this book:
The Haunting of Shirley Jackson
Read this if you liked:
Anything by Jackson herself.
Meet the book’s lead:
Rose, newly married, newly pregnant, who arrives in 1964 Vermont to lodge with the writer, when her husband takes up a teaching post at the local college.
Said lead would be portrayed in a movie by:
Rose comes across as the dictionary definition of self-effacing. As this is not an abundant quality in the current crop of acting talent, I’m going to go with Joan Fontaine (see Hitchcock’s Rebecca) or Julie Harris, who played Eleanor in the original film version of The Haunting of Hill House.
Setting: would you want to live there?
North Bennington, Vermont is 1960s small town – bitterly divided between the college population and the locals, surrounded by deep, dark woods. Oh yes, I would live there.
What was your favorite sentence?
Several competed for first place, but this one captured my affection by nailing my exact sentiments about a certain famous author:
And he turned and picked up his glass, and said to Alan, “Have you actually tried Herzog? If Bellow gets any more self-referential, he’ll start writing with his asshole.
Ever play the Dinner Party Game? You know — that one where you choose the people, living or dead, you would most like to invite to your home to share a bottle of red and consume a plate of quiche and salad? Jesus, Einstein, Hitler, Marie Antoinette (bet she’d give excellent makeup tips) — they’re all on my list. I’d invite Lovecraft too, except he’d probably sit in a corner and cry. The game gets into our curiosity about the famous and the dead. What were they really like? we wonder. Was Jesus the kind of hipster who sneers at people’s immoral food choices? Did Einstein have a great line in dirty jokes? Could Hitler do accents?
If, like me, you’re a huge fan of the small but beautifully crafted output of horror writer Shirley Jackson, then she would be on that list too. Jackson, who died in her sleep from heart failure, left behind four children, a husband, a shedload of short stories (they were how she made her living) and a handful of novels. But not just any novels. Her penultimate book just happened to be The Haunting of Hill House, the book Stephen King describes as having one of the (if not *the*) finest opening paragraph. In any novel. Ever.
But the dinner party game is just a game, unless you are Susan Scarf Merrell, in which case it is a book in which Shirley Jackson once again presides over a dinner table, available to us via the gaze of Rose, the mousy child-bride of handsome academic Fred. The couple lodge with Shirley and her lascivious husband Stanley through a long cold Vermont winter. Through Shirley, Jackson lives again. We get to hear her talk. We get to eat her terrible meals. We begin to delve into the odd, fraught, complicated business that was her marriage and her life.
If that were all Shirley the novel represented — a chance to satisfy our curiosity about what kind of a person could write something as dark and psychologically twisted as Hill House — then it would itself be nothing more than a curiosity, and for around half the book, this is what I believed the story amounted to. Rose observes the family. She hears stories about a young co-ed who disappeared years ago. She understands that Shirley may outwardly tolerate Stanley’s infidelities, but that inwardly she deeply resents them. Rose, pregnant with her first child, begins to appreciate why the local townsfolk whisper about Jackson’s reputation as a witch.
Up to this point, we’re heading in the direction of a straightforward mystery, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But then Merrell manages, in a masterly, Jacksonesque way, to skew the story into something else entirely. ‘I am not Eleanor!’ Rose cries, denying her similarity to the lead character in Jackson’s famous book. Rose tries to wake Jackson’s sleeping daughters and fails. People act as though she is not there; speak to her in asides, almost as if speaking to themselves. You begin to wonder who Rose is, exactly. How real she is. With a chill you realize that everyone at your invented dinner party is hanging on every word you say. You realize that you are not the host of the party, but the guest – that you are the observed not the observer. You begin to wonder if you might be the figment of someone else’s imagination.
It’s a magnificent twist and one which Merrell, to her credit, does not overplay. She contents herself, as did Jackson, with hinting, provides an ending which satisfies both possibilities – the ordinary mystery and the story about a writer conjuring a subject into reality – and leaves us to make up our minds about which version we prefer.
Jackson, at the head of the table of phantoms, would smile and approve.
Shirley: A Novel
Author: Susan Scarf Merrell
Publisher: Blue Rider Press (2014)
Review by Cath Murphy
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Joshua Chaplinsky from New York is reading Stories of YOUR Life June 12, 2014 - 10:42am
This sounds like my kind of thing, and makes me want to read Hill House as well.
Too bad I'm your editor and had to read all the spoilers.
Cath Murphy from UK is reading Find out on the Unpr!ntable podcast June 13, 2014 - 5:01am
Yeah, just as well you took out the part where I let slip that Shirley is actually Darth Vader in disguise.
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Meet Jesse Gerner, Yume ambassador
Sarah Gamboni
Sarah Gamboni: Jesse, you’re a busy man, with three restaurants and three young sons - why have you decided to work with The Yume App?
Jesse Gerner (JG): I’ve teamed up with founder Katy Barfield and chef Matt Wilkinson to host a bunch of lunches, dinners and talks about food waste, and the facts and figures have blown me away. According to Katy, world food wastage is around 50 per cent, or more than 1 billion tonnes per year. In Australia, we waste about 4.45 million tonnes a year, and restaurants are some of the worst offenders, accounting for one third of that. On the other side, 2 million Australians struggle to feed themselves, so something isn’t adding up.
SG: What do you like about The Yume App?
JG: As a restaurant owner, what really appeals to me is the ability to donate excess food. I can use the app to have leftover bread, soups and braises collected and delivered to homeless shelters and food programs. That’s what I think is groundbreaking for Yume: it has a great scalability that allows smaller organisations to get involved. Most of the larger food charities require produce by the pallet-load, but with Yume we can donate surplus food on a daily basis, and it protects us via the Good Samaritans Act.
SG: How do you tackle food waste at Green Park Dining?
JG: All of our organic kitchen waste goes into the composter, which is sold as fertiliser. Locals come by and pick up a bag for a gold coin donation, and we give that money to the Adventure Playground in Fitzroy, a place where refugee kids can play, garden and grow vegies in a relaxed setting. We’ve also built herb boxes out the front of the restaurant - not only do they supply the kitchen with fresh herbs, but we also encourage people to come and help themselves. All too often we buy a huge bunch of herbs at the supermarket when we only need a handful, and the rest goes to waste. This way, people can just take what they need.
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JG: One key way we manage waste at the restaurants is by offering a feasting menu - it’s left up to us in the kitchen to decide what people will eat, so we have much greater control over ordering and stock rotation. We like to use secondary cuts of meat, such as beef cheek, pork jowl and neck, pig’s face terrine, tongue and bonemarrow. All of those cuts are pretty mainstream these days, and I find that our customers are willing to try it as long as it’s presented well. One of the biggest sellers at Bomba is the montadito with morcilla (blood sausage). I feel that people are more willing to go down the offal route if it’s tapas style, rather than one large dish. We also make our own sausages and pickles, which is great for using up any offcuts.
SG: How do you source your fresh fruit and vegetables?
JG: We try to source from local, small-scale suppliers, and we work with Spade & Barrow, which was also founded by Katy Barfield. It’s a great social enterprise that distributes fruits and vegetables to restaurants that might otherwise be rejected by retailers, as they’re deemed ‘imperfect’. The proceeds go back to Victorian farmers, helping with mental health and financial issues. The thing I like about it is it’s real food - it’s not graded, so it can be a bit irregular in appearance, but it’s really tasty and delicious - and it gives us more to work with in the kitchen as we have to be creative. And this is produce that would otherwise be thrown out.
SG: On a smaller scale, how can we reduce food waste at home?
JG: A lot of that comes down to forward-planning. If you map out the meals you’re going to have each week, you can shop accordingly - and not end up with all of those half-used herbs! I’m a big believer in freezing leftovers, and of having a couple of go-to dishes to use up vegetables that are getting a bit tired, such as pastas and soups. A jaffle iron is great if you’ve got kids, as you can fill them with cheese, roasted vegies, all sorts of things.
SG: You’ve talked about selling fertiliser and sharing herbs with locals - in what other ways do you get involved at a grassroots level?
JG: My wife, Vanessa, and I are lucky that we live in such a great community in Northcote. Our neighbours share their lemons, and swap vegies and eggs. We’ve been in the ‘Pickle Club’ for six years now. It’s a group of 15 like-minded people who meet up in Edinburgh Gardens to drink beer and swap pickles. At the end of the day, we all walk away with a range of different things, such as chilli oil, chutneys and harissa.
Jesse Gerner is the owner and chef at Anada, Bomba and Green Park Dining. He lives in Northcote with his wife, Vanessa, and three sons. The Yume App connects food outlets, diners and food charities, allowing restaurateurs to discount leftover produce or have it collected by food charities. This interview originally appeared on The Yume Blog.
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The Mysterious Makinov
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Directing from behind a mask, Makinov director of horror Come Out and Play is one odd man and that’s saying something ion the world of horror.
The Belorussian troublemaker has only given a few interviews, suggesting his follow ups would involve either eroticism or the animals around him in his woodland home.
Born in Belorussia in the 1970’s, the elusive director refuses to disclose his first and last name. His first exposure to film making was as a focus puller in Russia. Interested in Huichol shamanism, he ventured to Mexico where he shot two documentary films on the subject.
After what he describes as a near death experience, he forged a new identity, referring to himself as Makinov. He believes that by punishing the ego, through anonymity, he can command the wisdom of being one with nothing.
Come Out and Play released 3rd May 2013 charts Beth and Francis vacation before the birth of their first child. Francis insists on venturing to a more serene island, Beth hesitantly agrees. They set out to a beautiful island, but soon discover it’s mysteriously abandoned, and the only people left on the island are children. Beth and Francis are left to uncover the mystery of the disappearances, and a day in paradise quickly turns into a struggle for survival.
We will be reviewing his movie Come Out and Play soon and in the meantime check out Makinov chainsaw-sound tracked manifestos below:
Come Out and Play, Makinov
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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
This week I attended Screening the Future 2011: New Strategies and Challenges in Audiovisual Archiving, held in Hilversum, the Netherlands.
The event was organised by PrestoPrime and PrestoCentre, interlinked projects funded by the European Union as part of a decade-long programme looking at how film and broadcast archives should plan for the future by sharing knowledge of best practice. In particular the aim is to prepare these archives for the inevitable digital future. The conference was held at the architecturally stunning Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid), located in Hilversum’s Media Park – the archive of Dutch television and radio located next door to its main broadcasters and producers.
Film vaults at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
The conference was clearly popular, as they could have sold twice the number of tickets that they did. Attendees were split roughly 50/50 into archivists looking for the best way to manage their holdings, and vendors anxious to sell them the products and services to enable them to do so. There were some starry speakers: Antoine Aubert from Google; Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle; film preservationist Jim Lindner of Media Matters; James Snyder, Senior Systems Administrator at the at Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center; BBC Senior Research Engineer Richard Wright; digital video archiving guru Jeff Ubois; Daniel Teruggi, head of France’s Institut National de l’Audiovisuel; and Javier Hernandez Ros, Head of Unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning at the European Commission.
We were there to discuss such big questions as What are we preserving? How can we fund our future? Where do archives meet IT? How will we keep our archives in good shape? and (painful as it is to write) How can we valorise our archives? A lot of the argument was inspired by a recent report, The New Renaissance, by the EU body Comité des Sages, which was published in January 2011. The report comes with a fascinating appendix, ‘The Cost of Digitising Europe’s Cultural Heritage‘, prepared by Nick Poole of the Collection Trust. The report looks at the costs of digitising audiovisual collections, including the variables and the scales involved, comparing such costs with other things the EU member states might want to spend their money on. We are told that the total cost of digitising the cultural material in the EU (i.e. libraries, museums, national archives and AV collections) would be €105.31bn, of which AV collections alone would be €4.94bn. We are asked to consider the price of one Joint Strike Fighter (a fighter aircraft), which comes to €147.41m (excluding annual maintenance costs). For that money you could instead be
digitising 1m individual books if the majority of digitisation is done in-house
digitising 1.67m books if the digitisation is outsourced
digitising 2.42m books under a Public Private Partnership
digitising 96,789 rare books, manuscripts and incunabula
digitising 29.5m historic photographs
digitising 1.83m man-made artefacts in museums
digitising 2.02m natural artefacts in museums
digitising 36.85m pages of archival records
digitising 2.4m hours of audio material
digitising 0.34m hours of video
digitising 0.09m hours of film
Europe being a peace-loving continent, and moreover a continent generally in favour of state funding, there were many who wanted to divert funds from the air forces to digitising our cultural heritage, so the €100bn figure was much bandied about. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was scathing about this, pointing out just how many millions of film, sounds, websites and book titles his organisation has been able to make available for free online for a fraction of the sums being advocated by the Europeans. It all seemed so easy, if you apply Kahle’s ingenious lateral thinking and bold attitude towards copyright laws as presently constituted. The audience at Hilversum was torn between its free spirit aspirations and its dismay at Kahle’s seeming indifference towards rules of ownership that public sector institutions and broadcast archives are bound to observe.
Brewster Kahle taunts the archivists of Europe
Is Kahle a rogue, or a right-minded libertarian? Were his detractors in the audience only seeing the bars of the cage while he sees the gaps in between? That’s for others to debate. Instead, I was interested in the vision of archives that was being to presented to us. In times past, a conference about archives would have touched on the care of film stock, film handling skills, cultural priorities, aesthetics, and so on. We understood that we were talking about a craft, as well as all the economics and politics. But in Hilversum we heard speaker after speaker talk about project plans, workflows, metadata, file formats, wrappers, bit rot, master files and proxies, scalability, checksums, fixity checks, terabytes, petabytes (1,000 terabytes) and exabytes (1,000 petabytes). It was all about feeding the machine, the machine that the audiovisual archiving world is turning into as we put in analogue on a mass scale at one end and spit out digital files at the other. James Snyder from the Library of Congress told us that, in the future, we would have to eliminate humans from the process as much as possible (humans create errors), adding that
We are the last generation to have worked with analogue in the production environment. The next will have to be taught.
Gradually the pieces of the audiovisual archiving puzzle are coming together. You have the object to be digitised, the metadata standardised, the workflows agreed, the file formats accepted, the systems built, the processes understood and agreed internationally. And if you don’t spend all your money on jet fighters, you may even to be able to pay for it.
The future of film archiving is rows and rows of servers, nurturing digital files forever. Once you have digitised, that’s not the end of it. New formats and standards keep on coming in, and you have to migrate what you have digitised on a regular basis to ensure you’re not losing anything, maybe every 5-7 years re-digitising from your master files, so the machine will keep churning away, into infinity.
The love of the medium will be gone. The physical sense of the medium will vanish. Archivists will no longer be craftsmen or women, they will be process managers. Arguments in favour of supporting moving image preservation (which will be a never-ending procedure) will be harder to make to politicians and funders, because there will be nothing with any romance to show them, except those rows and rows of whirring machines – and what can be shown on the screen itself. We’ll still have that. And access will be sensational. We’ll have everything available one day: every extant silent, every feature film, every TV programme imaginable, every YouTube video, all probably accessible at the touch of a icon on your smartphone. But the medium itself, and the archive profession that exists to preserve its value for the future, will have lost not a little of its soul. I guess it’s the price we pay for finally coming up with the perfect archive.
Inside the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, from http://www.pictureshowman.com
Note: Originally published on The Bioscope 17 March 2011 and reproduced here with small emendations.
Luke McKernan March 17, 2011 August 16, 2015
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The world fell in love with her in Marvel’s Black Panther. Now, T’Challa’s techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! T’Challa has disappeared, and everyone is looking at the next in line for the throne. Wakanda expects Shuri to take on the mantle of Black Panther once more and lead their great nation — but she’s happiest in a lab, surrounded by her own inventions. She’d rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them down! So it’s time for Shuri to go rescue her brother yet again — with a little help from Storm, Rocket Raccoon and Groot, of course! But when her outer-space adventure puts the entire cultural history of her continent at risk from an energy-sapping alien threat, can Shuri and Iron Man save Africa?
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Josh Freed: Fearless predictions of what you can expect in 2019
Guru Josh is peering into the future with his kale-enhanced, probiotic crystal ball that's 80 per cent right 50 per cent of the time.
In 2019, protesters will insist all Montreal road construction stop at once, as it's a heavy burden on the poor, the middle class, the rich and super-rich, Josh Freed predicts. John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette
Begone 2018!
You were a scary, slimy, greedy, divisive, nasty, long and brutish year — much like the man who dominated it from his perch in the White House.
We’ve seen homeless caravans, Brexit wars, French riots and crashing markets, along with hurricanes, tsunamis and globally destructive tweet-storms.
Donald Trump sucked up much of Earth’s oxygen as every third conversation quickly led to Uknowho.
— What’s for dinner, dear?
— Trump steak, honey … er, sorry, I mean rump steak. God, I can’t get that man OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!
— Relax, dear. Lets just eat at Donald’s … er, McDonald’s.
As always, Guru Josh is peering into the future with his kale-enhanced, probiotic, self-driving crystal ball that’s 80 per cent right 50 per cent of the time. So trust me when I tell you what’s coming.
In Montreal, a fast-growing movement called les gilets oranges (the “orange-jackets”) will erupt like France, with their own distinct demands.
The protesters will insist all Montreal road construction stop at once, as it’s a heavy burden on the poor, the middle-class, the rich and super-rich.
Better to keep our collapsing roads and sewers than lose our sanity, they cry.
Like Paris, massive protests will spread through Montreal in an effort to block traffic and bring the city to a halt. But given our usual construction chaos, no one will notice the difference.
In the U.S., as Trump finally runs out of Cabinet members and advisers to fire, he will fire the only people left: his son-in-law, then his daughter and finally Melania.
He will remain alone in the White House, a mad king ruling by late-night tweets.
Health: After years of being told sitting is bad for us, armies of people bought standing desks, including a good friend.
Now, several new studies show prolonged standing is worse than sitting, causing back, leg and even possible heart problems. My friend has dumped his and taken a stand for sitting.
What next? It won’t be long before we see “exercise desks” where you must jog, bike or row in order to power your computer. The harder you exercise the more computer time you’ll get.
Slow down and the screen loses its resolution and eventually fades to black-and-white.
In tech news, most phones now have “screen time” apps that warn when you’re online overdosing. But they’re proving to be just another excuse to check your phone.
“Ohmigod, I’ve been online 9 hours, 17 minutes — it was only 8 hours, 43 minutes when I looked a minute ago. Geez, I’m terrible. Hmm … I wonder how much screen time I had yesterday at this hour? I’d better check!”
2019 will bring a related phone app called “Trump time” that records how many times a day you say “Trump” in conversation.
You’ll set a warning alarm for the 100th time, or 30th, or even for “Zero Trump.” Then an alarm will chirp, saying “Change topic! Change topic! Change topic — or change president!”
Mount Royal: The consultation committee on the mountain will finally release its report, which will be as bureaucratic as the consultation that baffled many during summer.
It will conclude Montrealers want more driving access over Mount Royal but not total access, as many cyclists don’t want any cars, many dog owners don’t want any cyclists and the squirrels think we’re all nuts.
After heated debate, city hall will announce a made-in-Montreal compromise. They will slow down mountain traffic by installing hundreds of potholes dug up and transported from streets where they weren’t needed.
They will also post signs along the road inspired by our Montreal no-parking signs, saying:
“Welcome to Mount Royal: No cars permitted Mon. through Fri., 7 a.m.-11 a.m. and 15 p.m.-19 p.m. except hearses, mourners, city trucks, handicapped drivers, diplomatic cars, ride-sharing vehicles, carpools or families with barbecues, coolers, chairs, sleds, skis, toboggans and … For further regulations, see the back of this sign.”
It will prove the perfect Montreal solution. Just like our no-parking signs, drivers will slow down so much to read them everyone will be safe.
Science: NASA will announce a major discovery: they have found the exact location of The Cloud, which many of us have wondered about for years.
Some crackpots at Silicon Valley will claim The Cloud is actually several vast computer warehouses in California, owned by Google and Apple, but you can’t fool me. I know fake news when I see it.
Good news: Despite a grim year, it’s reassuring to read books like Factfulness to remind us things are rarely quite as bad as they seem.
Some facts: 80 per cent of one-year-olds worldwide have had at least one vaccination. Over 90 per cent of children go to primary school. Under 10 per cent of the world lives in extreme poverty, compared to 50 per cent in 1966.
That’s partly why world life expectancy is now 70.
So despite our many problems, the world is a better place for most people than ever before.
Here’s to a happy, healthy and better New Year and may all your conversations be Trump-free.
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Joe Jackson’s Secret Daughter Talks Relationship With The Jacksons
Joh'Vonnie Jackson preps tell-all to let everyone know what life was like around her more-famous brothers and sisters.
Sonya Eskridge
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A woman that Joe Jackson fathered outside of his marriage to Katherine Jackson is telling her story.
Joh’Vonnie Jackson wasn’t feeling the love in her relationship with her more famous siblings.
According to the Daily Mail Joh’Vonnie is ready to tell all in her new book, Bastard Child. Although the public is just finding out about Joh’Vonnie, the Jacksons have known about her for years. But, with a family image to protect, she couldn’t be public about being a Jackson.
“I was very aware that I was in the Jackson family growing up, I saw them on TV, I listened to their music,” she told The Daily Mail. “But I was hidden away, kept secret for years, not able to become part of that family. It was hurtful.”
Joh’Vonnie is the result of a 25-year affair that Joe had with her mother, Cheryle Terrell. BlackAmericaWeb.com reports that she was born just one day after Michael’s 16th birthday. Despite Joe’s efforts to keep Joh’Vonnie in touch with her siblings, she has never really felt like part of the family.
“I have met every single last one of them, but for some reason there has always been something stopping them from accepting me, from being close to me,” she shared.
“Of course when I was around them there was a show of love,” she clarified, “but once I was gone there was no phone calls asking how I’m doing or how is my daughter doing, it’s upsetting, real hurtful and I still feel rejected.”
Her half siblings also weren’t much comfort when Joh’Vonnie lost her mother a few years ago. Despite their complicated history, one might be surprised to find out who among the Jacksons was the first to offer up their condolences.
“Even when my mother died in 2014 the first person who called me was their mother Katherine, the only sibling to call was Rebbie, she’s the only one who really cares,” she said.
“I later said to my brother Jermaine, ‘my mother died.’ He started stuttering and said, ‘I was gonna call.’ It was a wake up call,” she added. “It let me know my position in the family. As far as I’m concerned they can all kiss my ass.”
Most of all, Michael was particularly distant with her when they met in person.
“It was a big moment for me, but Michael was looking at me and seemed cold and standoffish,” Joh’Vonnie recalled.
“He never acknowledged that I was his sister, there was no hug or kiss, not even a handshake, no physical contact at all,” she continued, “I wanted to embrace him, I thought that he would wanna go some place quiet and sit and talk with me and ask me about my life and get to know me a little better. It was very hurtful, he wasn’t interested at all.”
However, Michael was much more interested in getting to know Joh’Vonnie’s daughter, and that rubbed her the wrong way.
“With my daughter, he was totally different, she got hugs and kisses, everything I didn’t get, I’m woman enough to admit I was jealous,” Joh’Vonnie confessed. “I never did get a chance to speak to Michael properly. At the time it was very hurtful, again there was this theme that I felt shut out.”
Joh’Vonnie’s daughter, Yasmine, is backing her mother’s decision to share her experience with the Jacksons.
✨Greatness cannot & will not be stopped✨ It’s such a great feeling to see my Mom @johvonniejackson74 on her very own book 😫. It’s so surreal! She will be announcing the release date soon 😉 • • • #JohvonnieJackson #JosephJackson #ZaaharahSays #BlackQueens #BlackGoddesses #SelfLove #BastardChild #MoonChild #Lover #Strength #Lgbt #Blog #BlackAuthors #Autobiography #JacksonNextGen #Shining #Luminous #Soul #Music
A post shared by Yasmine Jackson 🏳️🌈 (@yasminejackson_) on Feb 4, 2018 at 6:11am PST
On the flip-side, Katherine was much more welcoming to Joh’Vonnie and her daughter despite the affair she was born from.
“She was really nice to me, I think she was very hurt at the time of the affair, that’s totally understandable. No woman likes for her husband to go cheating on her and produce a child, it was probably heart-breaking,” said Joh’Vonnie. “But you know she had come out of that, she let me live in her home, me and my daughter, we didn’t have to pay any rent. I worked to support my daughter and I took care of her home when she was not there. We have cooked together with have had good conversations.”
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