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2010 World Cup - South Africa (Moderators: Tallman, Flex, E-man) »
Best and most pleasant World cup Surprise (s)
Author Topic: Best and most pleasant World cup Surprise (s) (Read 8176 times)
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Since we have the biggest disappointment I thought I would create an opposite thread.
Germany and it's young but talented team and how they have dealt with all that have come before them.
Forlan elevating his game and his doing whatever it takes to contribute to the success of his country.
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Re: Best and most pleasant World cup Surprise (s)
Many surprising results, Spain vs Switzerland, New Zealand vs Italy, Mexico vs France, Algeria vs England, Serbia vs Germany.
These results made the group battles more interesting.
T & T We Want A Goal !
A real surprise to me is the great TV ratings in de USA. Ah mean is "soccer" in South Africa. Despite the Glen Becks, the interest is strong.
Jah Gol
Ronaldinho is the best player of our era
Ayew. It's a pity he missed out on the quarter final through a dubious yellow card and even worse that his team lost.
For me...it's a tie between Diego Forlan & Sami Khedira
Forlan still gets nowhere near the credit or recognition he deserves. Mostly based on the below par time he spent at Man United. He get written off as a shithong. But Forlan is a serious player and he has shown that he belongs right up there with the best in the game right now, essentially taking this Uruguay team on his back. I'm so happy for him that's he's shining on this the biggest of stages.
Khedira has seamlessly slotted into the Michael Ballack role with Germany and seriously.....there is an argument that instad of Germany heaping abuse on Kevin Prince Boateng for injuring Ballack causing him to miss the World Cup, they should be thanking him. Because the possibility is great that Ballack, based on his form with Chelsea the past 2 seasons may not have been as effective as Khedira has been on this team. A real compliment to the young man.
The other player who was a pleasant surprise to me has been Schweisteiger. I thought he went missing the first 2 Germany games but in the games against England and Argentina, he's been the driving force of the German team. Schweinsteiger literally ran through the Argentinian defence with impunity. It's nice to see such a talented player mature on the big stage.
I read somewhere where someone said that Maradona concentrated so much on Ozil that he put Mascherano to man mark him, which was mainly effective because Ozil had a fairly quiet game, despite the wonderful pass for the 4th goal. But the fact that Maradona surrounded Mascherano with De Maria, Maxi Rodriguez, and Messi, essentially offensive players, that it left Schweinsteiger the freedom of Cape Town to do as he pleased. He practically destroyed Argentina.
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Not sure why you surprised... Schweinsteiger essentially did the same thing four years ago in Germany. Like Klose he's had tepid club campaigns since, but he's been a key cog in the German machine... the departure of Ballack forced Loew's hand and needing dynamism in the middle, Schweinsteiger, now Khedira... was the path thru which they opted to channel the German offense.
have to agree with u there, esp forlan. The man dragged his side to the semis and maybe further.
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New Zealand....after watching them vs Bahrain I wrote them off as a shit side.
They exited the tournament without losing a match.
As a small side they rep extremely well.
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Uruguay surprised the shyte out of me especially because of the way they qualified etc. Forlan really elevated his game. I knew Ghana would have done well. They were my African team from the beginning. Too bad about that Uruguay business. I really wish Slovenia had gone further, they looked good to me.
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Neither Schweinstieger nor Khedira surprise me as individuals becaus ethey have not really been outstanding compared to the rest of the team. In each game yuh could pick any of Podolski, Ozil, Muller and Schweinstieger as the top performer. Loew is the surprise for me as he making perfect use of some good, yet not great players, and have them lighting up the tournament.
Loew have dat team runnin like a well oiled machine. A lot of the credit has to go to him.
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A new name on the cup.
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Loew did an excellent job of marshalling the largely unproven (on this level) talent on the team. An even better job of getting as much out of a team of individual stars as he did... unlike Maradona. I thought Schweinsteiger was solid... not spectacular... certainly nowhere as meteoric as he was in Germany 4 yrs ago. I liked that he was able to assert himself in midfield in a manner for which Ballack was quite unsuited... and frankly, I'd be surprised if Ballack get's called up anytime soon. Sentimental reasons may have led to his inclusion after South Africa, but his contributions are likely surplus given the play of the team. His hissy-fit with Lamm over the captaincy only serves to further seal his fate... although you can't blame him for wanting the arm-band back once fit.
The Best and most pleasant World Cup surprise for me is the fact that all the doomsday predictions about a crime ridden, terrorist targeted, tourist hell hole, disorganized, improperly managed, incomplete failure of the first World Cup in Africa have not seemed to materialize from all accounts.
Quote from: dinho on July 07, 2010, 07:40:02 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/world/africa/07safrica.html?ref=soccer
1- South Africa pulled off a (major) incident free Cup and made the continent proud.
2- Holland is in the final. Least inspiring team in the final (that I can remember) since Argentina in 1990...Dutch quality has shone way brighter in World Cups past without reaching this far- football is a funny game I suppose. Kinda comes off like a not so pleasant surprise, but in it's own way it's cool because they're trying to shake a World Cup monkey and I'd say that this team was less likely than many before them to do it, so it's Cinderella-esque and it's exciting to know that there will be a first time winner.
3- Forlan- Talent was never doubted but the footballing press dug him in a hole after his time at Man Utd. I think he's re-written his own legacy in this cup- He was all business since the first game against France, and never looked back. Candidate for MVP IMO.
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Good Win For Levante In Europa League
by David on August 24, 2012
Levante enjoyed its first European Cup game in the club’s over 100-year history, as it beat Scottish side Motherwell 2-0 in Scotland to all but secure a place in the Europa League group stages is practically secured.
The Valencian club only took a few minutes to settle its early nerves in Scotland and assert its superiority. It gradually stamped its authority on the game and began to inch ever closer to a breakthrough.
Míchel was Levante’s most dangerous outlet early on and spurned two great chances to open the scoring. Motherwell was far inferior to Levante technically and only managed to rouse the home crowd from the odd set piece.
Towards the end of the first half, an injury saw the Levante left-back replaced by the midfielder El Zhar, as there was no other left-sided defender on the bench. However, the reshuffle did not hinder Juan Ignacio Martínez’s side, which took the lead just a couple of minutes later.
After a long ball from German defender Lell, the Greek striker Gekas halted his run to avoid straying offside. However, Juanlu ghosted in from deep to collect the ball and beat Motherwell goalkeeper Randolh, etching his name into the history books as the scorer of Levante’s first ever goal in Europe.
The Scots attempted to regroup after the restart, although it was Gekas who came closest to scoring, forcing the home goalkeeper into a stunning save.
Motherwell upped the tempo and threw caution to the wind in search of an equaliser, but El Zhar doubled Levante’s advantage on the counterattack, sealing victory on the night and tipping the tie very much in the Spanish side’s favour.
The goal knocked the stuffing out of the Scottish side, which was unable to keep up its aggressive approach. Levante was able to stroke the ball around at will and could have added to its lead ahead of next week’s return leg at the Ciutat de Valencia.
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Mother charged with child abuse after beating 15-year-old who stole candy bar from store
Jenita Jones, 39, remains in a Nashville jail this morning in lieu of a $5,000 bond. She is charged with child abuse and domestic assault, after police say she punched her 15-year-old daughter with her fists, and then hit her in the face with a belt, as punishment for stealing a candy bar and a bag of chips from a store.
Metro Police responded to the Z-Mart on Dickerson Pike Saturday night, in response to a call of a mother fighting with her child. When the officers arrived, the fight had just finished. Officers were able to view a video of the incident.
The mother, Jenita Jones, told officers that she was disciplining her 15-year-old daughter for stealing a candy bar and a bag of chips from the Z-Mart, where they were still parked at. The victim had large scratches on her face, along with redness throughout her entire face. Both Jones and her daughter told officers the other one started the fight.
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Upon video review, officers observed the mother exiting the store, opening the back of the van, and hitting the 15-year-old daughter with her fists multiple times. The mother then retreats to the front seat of the van for a few seconds, before returning to the back door, this time with a belt in her hand. The mother, Jenita Jones, then swings the belt multiple times toward her daughter, striking her in the fact with the belt. The mother then pulls her daughter out of the van, and throws her onto the ground.
Officers arrested Jenita Jones, and charged her with domestic assault, and child abuse. She remains in jail in lieu of a $5,000 bond.
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I was at the opening of "London Calling" at the Getty on Monday night, and the excitement was palpable. People weren't just milling through, chatting with their friends — they were turning to strangers and talking about the works.
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Swimming: Injured Cate Campbell faces trials (and tribulations) after being caught napping
Australia's Cate Campbell prepare for a warm up prior to the start of the final day of the Aquatic Super Series in Perth on Feb 6, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
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Reuters - Former 100m freestyle world champion Cate Campbell is carrying a strained wrist through the Olympic trials in Adelaide this week after injuring it during an "aggressive" nap.
The 23-year-old, who won gold with Australia's 4x100m freestyle team at the 2012 London Games, said she had bent her wrist backwards twice while sleeping, causing damage to a joint.
"I am an aggressive napper," Campbell told local media.
"I woke up the first time and the wrist was sore then somehow I did it again - that did it. More rest should do it a lot of good".
Campbell still managed to qualify fastest for the 100m freestyle final at the national trials and will take on her sister Bronte in the decider on Tuesday.
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Like butterflies in a showcase, he wanted to show the awarded lamps at the Stylepark Selected stand, says Philipp Mainzer. The architect, designer and founder of the furniture label e15 designed Stylepark's appearance at Light + Building 2018. Like RelvaoKellermann, who designed Stylepark Selected at imm 2018 in the rooms of the MAKK in Cologne, Mainzer was also faced with the challenge of creating a common framework for the very different products that Stylepark exhibits at the Trendspot Design of the world's leading trade fair for lighting and building services technology. Moreover, the products were not known when the planning began.
Finally, he decided to create a kind of catwalk for the winning lights on display. The L-shaped wall, which bounded the stand to the rear and to one side, was placed at a slight angle to the hall aisle, so that the room seems to face the trade fair visitor. In front of it he placed a continuous pedestal - the catwalk, on which the various lights are now parading. The entire stand architecture does not require any colours. With the white surfaces and the black font, Mainzer deliberately refers to the design of the Stylepark homepage. At the same time, the award-winning luminaires look almost like silhouettes against a neutral background. Nothing should distract them.
Philipp Mainzer has decided to make the access to the stand as fluid as possible by using the same floor covering as in the following aisle. This gives the architecture something very generous. It invites visitors to come in to see the exhibits, eat or drink in the integrated café or simply settle down in the lounge area equipped with e15 furniture. (fap)
Stylepark Selected – The Award
Since the start of IMM Cologne, Stylepark's new format has been a permanent fixture at the most important trade fairs for the design and architecture sector. What does Stylepark Selected offer you as a reader? An overview.
Impressions from the Light + Building 2018
You didn't make it to Light + Building 2018? Never mind! Stylepark gives you an impression of the fair on your monitor.
Networked lighting
by Thomas Edelmann | 3/16/2018
Lighting manufacturers have already made the leap into the digital world, which means that the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt/Main will be focusing less on new products and more on changed fields of use and services.
Wireless and happy
by Jasmin Jouhar | 3/16/2018
We are still tethered to our electronic gadgets and devices – for now. But thanks to wireless electricity transmission, the entire furnishings of our homes and offices are set to become charging stations.
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Since it first opened in 2007, the SOMC Inpatient Hospice Center has operated on the idea that expectations for end-of-life care should not be met – instead, they should be transcended.
That simple philosophy is what led us to build a stand-alone facility with a beautiful, home-like atmosphere and to staff it with a Magnet-recognized nursing staff, home health aides, social workers, chaplains, therapists and volunteers. It is what has allowed us to touch the lives of more than 5,000 patients – accounting for nearly 25,000 patient days – and to see those numbers increase every single year.
And it is that philosophy that inspires our $3 million capital campaign, Transcending Lives. Transcending Lives will see us update SOMC Hospice with four new patient rooms, another large common gathering area, a meditation room, new restroom facilities, an upgraded kitchen and support areas to assist staff in continuing to provide excellent care for our patients.
These additions are not luxuries; they’re necessities. They’re necessary because of our program’s rapid growth, which is accelerated by the fact that SOMC Palliative Care and House Calls Program has also grown. This program, which results in more than 50% referrals to SOMC Hospice, began with just four patients in 2013 and cares for 85 today. As a result, SOMC Hospice often operates at full-capacity and patients have to be admitted to the main campus until rooms become available. Patients that come for Respite Care also must wait for open rooms or go to a nursing home to receive care.
But more than that, these additions are necessary because they stay true to that original idea upon which SOMC Hospice was founded – that expectations will be transcended, not just met.
We’re proud to say we’ve already assembled a diverse and dedicated team to make that happen. Transcending Lives has the full support of SOMC’s Board of Directors, Development Foundation Board of Directors, executive team, administrative staff and hospice team, in addition to countless volunteers and supporters whose experiences with SOMC Hospice have led them to describe the caregivers as “Angels of Mercy.”
The campaign is in its late stages, having raised $2.8 million of the $3 million goal. Currently, architectural plans are being finalized and soil and site analyses are taking place.
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Spartan Vin Brulé
December 24, 2017 by Mike Elgan
Vin Brule is the Italian Style of making mulled wine, which I made to celebrate Mike's new book, Gastronomad: The Art of Living Everywhere and Eating Everything!
During our travels in the Veneto region of Italy recently, a dear friend shared her wonderful recipe of vin brulé, which I liked way better than the mulled wine I’ve sampled and even made myself in the United States. In Italy, vin brulé is heated over open fire, but the stove works fine! My friend adds her own twist to the traditional recipe by adding prunes. I decided to adapt it for the Spartan Diet and use dates to partly sweeten it with as well as local raw honey at the end instead of sugar.
Organic Ingredients:
3 bottles of organic red wine (cabernet or zinfandel or any other -- preferably without added sulfites)
12 whole star anise
12 whole cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
2 teaspoon ground Ceylon cinnamon
1 whole vanilla bean pod
6 pitted prunes cut in half (no seed)
3 cubed apples (honeycrisp or fuji apples)
2 Red blood oranges (or any type of orange such as navel or valencia)
2 Meyer lemons
6 Medjool dates (seeds removed)
2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice (16 oz)
3/4 cup honey (6 oz)
The Spartan Diet method:
1. In a large non-reactive heavy bottom pot (stainless steel or enameled cast iron, for example), pour all the wine and add the star anise, cloves, cinnamon sticks, ground cinnamon and ground allspice. Begin to gently simmer over low heat covered with lid.
2. With a small paring knife, slit open one side of the vanilla bean pod lengthwise from end to end. Use the pointy sharp of the knife to open the bean lengthwise and then use a dinner knife or teaspoon to slide open the entire bean pod while scraping off and collecting the tiny seeds. Add to the wine along with the remainder of the bean pod.
3. Cut prunes (without seeds) in half and add them to the wine.
4. Chop apples into one-inch cubes (seeds removed) and add to the wine.
5. Sliced off top and bottom ends of the oranges and lemons and cut them into thin slices crosswise (removing all seeds). Add the orange and lemon wheels with skin to the wine mixture.
6. In a blender, blend dates (with seeds removed) with the freshly squeezed orange juice. Blend until it has a smooth consistency and stir into wine mixture. Continue to simmer over low heat for 20 to 30 minutes covered with lid and making sure it never boils (there is no fun in the alcohol evaporating, I tell you). Set timer.
7. After timer goes off, stir in honey. Taste for sweetness and add more honey if more sweetness is desired.
8. Remove from heat or turn heat to the very lowest setting to maintain warmth (keep it covered with lid). Serve hot (without the cooked spices) in heat resistant glasses. Be sure to include some of the delicious warm wine soaked apples chunks and a fresh orange wheel garnish to make it pretty. Enjoy!
With fresh ginger: add one inch of washed fresh ginger root sliced in thick slices at the beginning along with the spices.
With pears: replace one apple with one large Bosc pear chopped into cubes.
With Buddha's hand citrus fruit: replace one orange with slices of the delightful citrus.
Note: Feel free to add another bottle red wine to reuse the delicious mixture and make more vin brulé. You may need to add more honey but the leftover spices will still work. And it can also be made with white wine.
December 24, 2017 /Mike Elgan
The Spartan Diet Newsletter is back!
After a long hiatus, I'm bringing the Spartan Diet newsletter back! I’m also super excited to share that the Spartan Diet book will be published in 2018, finally! A true labor of love of ten years in the making. (But who’s counting?)
I’m looking forward to 2018. How about you?
Every year is a new opportunity for self-improvement, for self re-invention. It's a chance to adopt better habits, learn new things and re-embrace the good ideas that have gone by the wayside.
As cliché as it sounds, a new year is a great time for introspection, reflection and action. It’s a moment to think about how we can eat better, feel better, be more productive and see how we might rise to the challenge of becoming our best self.
What’s your diet been like in 2017? How much are you exercising? What’s keeping you awake at night? How are you cultivating joy? How are the relationships in your life going? How are you nourishing your body and soul? What are your goals for 2018?
If you follow me online, you know that my husband and I are nomadic. We usually live abroad to explore the world's culinary traditions. Sadly, the industrialization of food has gone deep and wide almost all over the world.
It’s disheartening to see how diabetes, obesity and other lifestyle related illnesses keep spreading worldwide as other countries "catch up" to the American fast food, chain restaurant mindset.
I confess that it's hard to stay on the Spartan Diet when we travel. Our lifestyle makes it tricky.
We want to try all the local foods. That's a big part of what makes living abroad exciting.
Many of foods are simply not available now in non-industrialized form. For example, a local dish might have traditionally been made with ancient grains, olive oil and honey, but today is made with modern wheat, palm oil and corn syrup. It looks like the real thing, but it's not.
We're lucky enough to make friends and get invited over for meals or drinks. Of course, we happily accept and enjoy whatever is offered to us with gratitude. It's simply an incidental fact that much of these foods aren't necessarily healthy.
When we were in Georgia (the country) recently, we tried all kinds of foods and beverages we had never seen in our lives. Some were healthy and some not at all. Ditto for Morocco. The novelty of it all is alluring and in those circumstances our policy is to eat as locals do.
We also get so excited by the food culture in France, for example, that we end up eating lots of bread and cheese -- and drinking a bit too much wine. When we’re in Italy, we, of course, eat way too much handmade pasta and pizza and fried foods -- and, again, too much wine. And we love it all!
In 2017, I launched a new business called The Gastronomad Experiences inspired by our own lifestyle, which we call gastronomad living. We live like nomads in different places around the world. The first of these agrarian foodie travel retreats, The Barcelona Experience, in September, was the hugely successful and joyful for us. And, according to our guests, unforgettable and epic! (If you’d like to learn more about The Gastronomad Experiences, or better still, join us for one of them, the next is in Northern Italy, just one hour from Venice! And it’s going to be the foodie adventure of a lifetime!)
My husband, Mike Elgan, my favorite journalist and writer, recently published his first book called Gastronomad: The Art of Living Everywhere and Eating Everything. It’s an amazing life-changing read and it also makes a great gift for foodies and travelers -- anyone really. There is also a Kindle version!
In the meantime, I’m picturing a rewarding 2018 for myself. I have big goals! One of the things that I’m looking forward to is finishing the Spartan Diet book.
So here are my goals for 2018, which I’m sharing right here so you can hold me accountable.
Follow the Spartan Diet healthy lifestyle principles 100%
Publish the Spartan Diet Book by fall of 2018
Share more recipes on the Spartan Diet blog
Host at least three Gastronomad Experiences in 2018
Disconnect from social media except to post once a day and express gratitude to people who support us on social media
I think I’m ready, no, I’m eager to get started and take 2018 by its horns, so to speak. Are you ready for 2018? Are you ready for transformation?
Why pomegranates are so important to The Spartan Diet
July 31, 2017 by Mike Elgan
The healthiest diet includes a plentiful variety of fresh, whole fruits.
The reductionist, food-as-a-wonder-drug mentality would seek out juice or concentrates of the “superfood” fruits — goji berries, and so on.
Focusing on the totality of diet and lifestyle is more important to health than a fixation on specific superfoods as cure-alls.
In general, however, it’s important to get plenty of dark-skinned or dark-juice fruits in the diet, including grapes, blueberries, black cherries, black plums and cranberries. Those dark skins are loaded with health-providing antioxidants.
That advice is simple enough. But left out of the equation is one fruit that merits a special place in the Spartan Diet: The pomegranate.
Pomegranates should be included into an extremely varied diet because they offer a very high concentration of antioxidants, vitamin C and other vitamins.
One fact we’ve noticed about the nexus between food, history and health is that, without exception, the foods that have been in the human diet the longest and which are still part of our diet tend to be the healthiest. These super ancient but still consumed foods include raw honey, olive oil and, yes, pomegranates.
(The pomegranate goes back so far that it may have been the fruit referred to in the biblical story of Adam and Eve as the “apple.”)
The trouble is that Americans are a little unsure about what to do about pomegranates. But that’s no reason to avoid them.
Instead of easy-to-eat fruits like bananas and oranges, which you simply peel and eat, pomegranates are hard to open, and filled with seeds, each of which is surrounded by a small “container” of juice.
Years ago, there was a craze in pomegranate juice because UCLA scientists proclaimed that pomegranate juice was the healthiest of all juices. A great number of health-minded people went out and bought off-the-shelf pomegranate juice as the latest life-extending elixir.
We reject this mindset on three grounds:
1. As is often the case, foods are discussed as "drugs" that help fight various diseases and other health problems. In fact, it's not natural, ancient foods that cure or prevent diseases, but the absence of those foods that cause disease and other health problems. Our bodies expect and need them in order to function properly.
2. Why juice? The Spartan Diet calls for drinking only water and fermented beverages and not drinking juice. The healthiest and best and most Spartan way to consume pomegranates and all fruits is to eat them whole and raw. Organic is best. What's funny is that the researchers arbitrarily focused on juice -- a product made from the fruit rather than the fruit itself -- then warned people not to drink too much juice because of its concentrated amounts of sugar and high calories. And they don't warn against "dead foods" (fruit or juice in cans or bottles) or praise "live" foods, such as fresh fruits.
3. They focus on the anti-oxidant part of the fruit, and ignore the many other qualities, including vitamins, fiber and the rest. Again, it's not a drug. It's a food, which should be eaten for all its health benefits, not just the ones scientists have decided are the important ones.
The way to consume pomegranates is to cut them open and eat the seeds in their entirety. Here’s how to cut open a pomegranate.
You can also sprinkle them on yogurt.
It doesn’t matter. The important thing is to include pomegranates in your diet, and eat the seeds whole, raw and fresh.
July 31, 2017 /Mike Elgan
Naturally Leavened Bread Pudding with Homemade Caramel Sauce!
March 25, 2017 by Mike Elgan
Modern wheat is not part of the Spartan Diet, nor are unsoaked or unfermented grains. That makes finding bread in stores or bakeries that meet this criteria can be difficult.
Desserts are part of the Spartan Diet as long as they are made with real, whole-food organic ingredients that are made with Spartan Diet-quality ingredients.
In this case, my bread pudding atypical. It’s made with naturally leavened bread, pastured eggs and raw pastured milk, homemade vanilla, ceylon cinnamon and raw honey. I also used raw panela for the caramel sauce, which is a true raw sugar with all its minerals.
Mike is the expert on bread baking. I use his leftover homemade bread in my bread pudding (so nothing goes to waste).
You don’t have to make everything from scratch. But everything you consume should be equivalent to homemade (without emulsifiers, fillers or preservatives) as if you would have made it yourself from scratch.
Small farms and local artisans increasingly produce high quality foods and ingredients, available especially at Farmer’s Markets. Even Whole Foods Markets often carry food made locally and in small batches with organic ingredients and without additives.
Mike and I just love making everything from scratch. We find it gratifying. From making our own cured olives, sauerkraut, cheeses, yogurt, vanilla, spices, broths and bread to making even our own kombucha, pickled veggies, kefir, hot sauce and vinegars, we enjoy making it all.
Mike uses ancient grains for his bread, and grinds it himself. We like emmer and Einkorn but also spelt. Flour from ancient grains is nothing like modern wheat, which gives all grains a bad rap. Modern wheat was hybridized to be high in gluten, which makes it easy for processing and manufacturing wheat products. It’s designed to be a good product for manufacturing purposes and profitability not as something healthful to eat.
But even modern wheat can be made far healthier when fermented. Unfortunately, store-bought bread is rarely fermented, even when it's marketed as "sourdough."
Mike makes our bread with highly fermented dough. Fermentation not only transforms the dough for incredibly good flavor and texture for both crust and crumb, but removes gluten and phytic acid, improves the bioavailability of the protein and broadly improves its overall health profile.
The bottom line is that yeast-leavened bread is bad for you; Naturally leavened bread good for you, especially if it does not contain modern wheat.
Grains have to be fermented (or soaked or both) to make them nutritiously viable, which is why naturally fermented bread with wild yeast from the air is not only better for you but heavenly to eat and enjoy with a piece of real cheese or grass fed cultured homemade butter!
March 25, 2017 /Mike Elgan
The World's Greatest Athlete Loves Spartan Muesli
January 20, 2017 by Mike Elgan
In a cover story for Vogue magazine, American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, Ashton Eaton, professed his love for Spartan Muesli, a menu item at Santa Barbara's Backyard Bowls right out of the Spartan Diet.
In fact I developed the item for Backyard Bowls years ago while consulting for the company. (The chain has four locations -- three in or near Santa Barbara and one in Los Angeles.) If you ever get a chance to visit, their entire menu is fantastic -- and fantastically healthy.
The mention came about when Eaton was playfully arguing with supermodel Gigi Hadid during a Vogue cover shoot about which Backyard Bowls item was their favorite (with Eaton favoring the Spartan Muesli and Hadid arguing in favor of Berry bowl with peanut butter).
Eaton holds the world record in both the decathlon and indoor heptathlon.
So there you have it. The world's greatest athlete loves an item from the World's Healthiest Diet. Makes sense!
January 20, 2017 /Mike Elgan
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October 17, 2016 by Mike Elgan
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The meaning of raw, cultured, grass fed, freshly churned butter.
February 01, 2016 by Mike Elgan
Any idea what "real" cultured butter really is?
If you happen to live in Europe, you can easily buy really delicious and truly cultured butter. Lucky you.
But if you live in the U.S., you're out of luck unless you happen to live in one of the states that allow raw milk products. And even then, it's hard to come by and you have to be prepared to pay hefty prices, as it should be. You get what you pay for, right?
You may be surprised to know that in North America, even butter sold as cultured is almost never the real thing. You can thank our federal government for that, along with our broken food system. (Hmm, or are they one and the same?)
Anyway, unless you've been to Europe or live in a state where raw dairy products are legal to sell or you make your own (if you have access to a cow or fresh raw cream) chances are you've never truly tasted the amazing flavors of real raw, cultured, grass fed butter.
I just made a fresh batch of cultured butter. I'm fortunate to get to milk one of the farm's cows where we live. Her name is Mathilda and she's a very sweet Jersey cow.
Right after milking her, I filter the milk and let it rest until the cream rises to the top. (That's what real milk is supposed to do). Then I skim the cream top with a small ladle and put it into a bowl to rest at room temperature until it gets very thick on its own. This is the natural process of fermentation. This step may take half to two days, depending of the weather and the milk itself and how cultured I want the butter.
Once the cream is as cultured as I like it, I taste it to make sure it's sweet and ever so slightly tangy. If for some reason it has gone bad, though it rarely happens, you would know. And this is all about your senses. You can see mold, you can smell the off scent and you can touch the unpleasant sliminess. If none of those signs are present, then just to be sure, you can take a tiny taste to make sure it's tangy instead of bitter.
Then I whip or churn it until it becomes butter. The buttermilk left behind after the fat solids separate leave a white liquid behind. This is the byproduct of the cultured cream turned into butter -- and is what real buttermilk is -- completely different from the stuff sold as "buttermilk" in the stores.
Contrary to popular belief, or what we have forgotten since widespread use of pasteurization (just a little more than one hundred years ago), dairy products made from raw milk are safe to eat. Like anything else when it comes to food, you have to practice good hygiene with the cow and make sure the machine and all the equipment and bottles you use are clean.
It's ironic that all all the incidents of salmonella and e. coli result from meat, chicken, fish, eggs and vegetables. Why, because anything can cause these illnesses, not just raw dairy. The irony is that year after year there are outbreaks of these illnesses and it's always as result of pretty much anything but raw dairy.
So the excuse to pasteurize and homogenize dairy is simply a convenience for the dairy industry. It enables them to produce milk from unhealthy cows in dirty conditions at a massive scale and get away with it.
For example, since every year there are outbreaks of salmonella and e. coli from meat, poultry and vegetables, what would happen if to prevent those outbreaks the government passed laws requiring that meat, chicken, fish and vegetables were cooked before selling? Well, that sort of what's done to milk.
By the way, even though we've been programmed to be terrified of raw milk dairy in North America by the government and the dairy industry, what makes raw milk very easy and safe to consume is the culturing process because that helps reduce pathogens. Fermentation is what naturally makes dairy not only safe and delicious to eat but also very nutritious precisely because of the microbes in it, which are so essential for good health. And have been for thousands of years.
It's easy to illustrate this example. If you leave a quart of raw milk and a quart of pasteurized milk on the counter unrefrigerated, in a day or two the raw milk will become a delicious clabber -- and if you strain off the whey, a delicious farmer's cheese. The pasteurized milk becomes horrible, spoiled and illness-inducing.
The process of fermentation or culturing actually eats away the lactose in the milk while making it teem with beneficial microbes or good bacteria. This is the reason why people who suffer from lactose intolerance can usually eat dairy products made with raw milk and not get sick.
Like most of the food-related health problems we suffer now, but which people didn't suffer from much in the past, the problems with milk are the result of radical industrialization.
Extreme industrialization transforms entire categories of food into something incompatible with human biology. Then we blame the food generally. Milk -- and for that matter grains, meat and other foods -- are not "bad for you." The industrialized version is bad or you.
Healthy milk starts with a healthy cow raised outside on pasture grass. Then you get the milk and you do I what I describe above.
But how can people not get sick or become lactose intolerant when milk comes from factory farms were cows have no room to move, live miserable lives while being fed toxic and pesticide-laden feed? These cows never even see the sunlight or breathe fresh air and are pumped with nasty hormones to make them produce more milk. These cows often develop horrible infections and cancer tumors and then are given antibiotics.
And, of course, all that is passed on the milk they produced. So then the milk is heated to a point that everything bad and good is killed. And it's often homogenized and bleached to make matters worse. Our bodies don't even know how to deal with the dairy when we consume it so we end up with lactose intolerance among a host of other things that can result from consuming these products. I know, it sounds horrible, but that's because it really is horrible.
These are foods literally created to be good products but not good for consumers. In other words, good for lasting in transportation and on store shelves.
This is one of the many reasons that cow dairy and pasteurized and homogenized dairy or foods are not part of the Spartan Diet. But, for now, since we have access to Mathilda, we are making our own fresh and aged cheeses, yogurt, kefir, butter and other dairy products that were always made with clean, raw, pastured milk the old world way.
So what's one to do if one has no way of getting access to raw dairy products from pastured raised cows? Avoid pasteurized dairy like if your life depends on it.
February 01, 2016 /Mike Elgan
First persimmons of the season
I enjoyed my first fuyu persimmon of the season just last week. I actually added it as an ingredient in a green leafy salad. Their crunchiness and sweetness balance nicely with the softness of lettuce as well as the tartness of the citrus dressing I made.
I also love hachiya persimmons, which taste like honey with an intricate hint of mango, nectarine, apricot and honeydew melon. Ancient Greeks called them the "fruit of the gods" or "divine fruit." And they do taste divine.
Like pumpkins, persimmons have a beautiful bright but deep orange color. They're a true berry and are in season from October to December. Many local farmer's markets sell persimmons abundantly during this time.
Though there used to be hundreds of persimmon varieties, the most common ones sold in the U.S. are the Hachiya and the Fuyu. I enjoy both kinds but the former is my favorite. The Fuyus are usually eaten hard, since they're not astringent. You can cut them into wedges like an apple (with peel and all) but they can also be eaten when they're soft.
Hachiyas, on the other hand, must be eaten soft. When Hachiyas are hard, it means they’re unripe and therefore astringent. Never try to eat a hard Hachiya. You would be unpleasantly surprised by an extreme feeling of dryness, bitterness and numbness in your mouth because of the high levels of tannins.
Persimmons are underappreciated in the United States, especially the Fuyu variety. I believe the reason is that they have what you could call a "slimy" and “mushy” texture. People who didn't grow up eating tropical fruit with such characteristics can have a hard time acquiring the taste.
Hachiyas are usually sold unripe or hard, but they'll eventually ripen (in one to three weeks). If your patience is being tried, place the hard Hachiyas in paper bag with apples or bananas. These release ethylene gas, which speed up the ripening process. They'll get very soft and delicate to handle (like a balloon filled with water).
Ripe Hachiyas look almost translucent. And when you cut one in half, it will expose the jelly-like flesh, which is very slick -- sort of like custard. Select Hachiyas that have a deep orange color with beautiful glossy skin. The black color patches some may have are just sun spots -- they’re okay to eat. I like to cut them in half crosswise and simply scoop out the inside with a spoon. Hachiyas are great for adding to dressings and baked goods, including cakes and fruit breads. Fully ripe Hachiyas should be stored in the refrigerator or freezer for later use in baking, or for eating frozen like a sorbet.
Fuyu persimmons have the shape of regular tomatoes and have a golden orange color. The fuyu can be eaten like an apple with its skin, but the calyx or top must be removed. If you like fruit in your salads, fuyus are great for that. I also love them in fruit salads. They really add wonderful sweetness.
Whether you prefer the fuyus or the hachiyas, these two persimmon varieties each have their own wonderful qualities and unique nutrients to offer. The soft hachiya is lower in calories and higher in vitamin C. But the fuyus offer more potassium, calcium and protein. The moral of the story: Learn to enjoy both of them.
Hachiya persimmons.
No, the Government Does Not Test Food for Safety
August 15, 2013 by Mike Elgan
American consumers generally believe that if a food is on the shelf at the supermarket, the ingredients in that product must have been tested by the FDA for safety. If it’s there, it must be OK, right?
It turns out that such a belief is false.
Food products may contain any of 10,000 or so “additives” -- often chemical colorings, preservatives, antioxidants, stabilizers, gelling agents, thickeners and so on -- that have been approved by authorities tasked with protecting the health of consumers (and a 1,000 or so that have been neither approved nor rejected).
This approval process is a charade, according to two new studies by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Pew study found that 54% of the chemicals added to food have never been tested for safety. Even most basic testing for toxicology has not been conducted on 88% of chemicals deemed of “elevated concern” for reproductive and developmental health.
The FDA also does not require serious testing to be done on packaging, even though in recent years a wide range of endocrine disruptors (hormone destabilizers) in packaging has been linked to serious health problems.
And of course, combinations of chemicals are not tested or required — yet these cocktails of untested chemical combinations are exactly what consumers are ingesting when they eat packaged foods.
The way it works is that companies wanting to sell a new chemical as a food additives submit their proposal to FDA panels for review. These proposals contain assurances put together by the companies about the safety of the ingredient.
The panels then either ask for further questions, or simply approve the chemical based on what the manufacturer has claimed. (The majority are approved without question.)
So who is sitting on these FDA panels? Who are the people decided to approve or deny the chemicals we eat?
The JAMA study found that “an astonishing 100% of the members of 290 expert panels included in [FDA] review worked directly or indirectly for the companies that manufactured the additive in question.”
The company wishing to profit from an additive ingredient tests it for safety, makes their case to a panel made up of people who will also profit from the sale of that ingredient, then the additive is inevitably approved without any oversight, second opinion, independent testing or anything.
The study also determined that about one thousand additives are in the food supply without any FDA knowledge or review.
So let’s review the facts about the approval process for additives:
* The companies that make and sell chemical additives do whatever safety testing is done. There is no independent testing.
* Those same companies choose whether or not to submit new chemicals for review. Neither the FDA nor the consumer has any idea that they are in the foods.
* More than half of new chemical additives are not even tested by the company. They are not tested by anyone.
* Proposals for new additives are submitted to review committees, and most are approved based solely on the claims of the manufacturer.
* Every single person who sits on FDA approval committees for additives works for the chemical additives industry.
The bottom line for food consumers is that industrial food giants can and do put just about any chemicals or other additives into your food, and there is no government monitoring, testing or oversight.
August 15, 2013 /Mike Elgan /Source
Sorry, Paleo People: Grains Are Part of the Human Diet
June 03, 2013 by Mike Elgan
There are many versions of the modern Paleo diet, assumed to be based on a partial or simulated version the diet of humans during the Paleolithic era (starting about 2.5 million years ago and ending about 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture). All these variants share an opposition to the consumption of grains, such as barley, wheat, rice, quinoa, kasha, oats, millet, amaranth, corn, sorghum, rye and triticale.
That anti-grain stance is based on the belief that since Paleolithic man didn't eat grains, we shouldn't either.
Archeology is now proving that Paleolithic man, in fact, ate grains. The entire premise of the Paleo diet's anti-grain stance is false.
Paleo diet fans are right about one thing, though: Industrial bread and industrial grain consumption plays a large role in the health crisis. But it's the industrial version of grain consumption -- the monoculture of mutated modern wheat in high quantities and unfermented -- that causes health problems, not grains per se.
In fact, strong evidence has recently emerged that humans and pre-human ancestors have been eating grasses and grass-like plants for about 4 million years, which eventually lead to people focusing on the seeds of those grasses in the form of grains.
How did this misunderstanding happen? Archeological evidence is skewed toward materials that survive the centuries, such as stone, bone and other hard objects. Soft materials (such as grains) don't survive unless hard objects were used to process them. Even then, actual food residues are unlikely to be detectable millennia later.
Fortunately, advancing technology is enabling us to figure out what ancient peoples really ate without relying on surviving bone and tools exclusively.
When the Paleo concept was first popularized in 1975 by Walter L. Voegtlin, and even when Loren Cordain published his influential book The Paleo Diet in 2002, there was little material evidence for Paleolithic grain consumption. That lack of evidence, combined with an absence of grain in the diets of today's remaining hunter-gatherer groups, lead to the belief that grain consumption was not part of the Paleolithic diet.
The oldest evidence we have for the domestication of grains is about 10,500 years ago. But the direct evidence for the processing of wild grains for food goes back much earlier than domestication.
Mortars and pestles with actual grains embedded in the pores were found in Israel dating back 23,000 years, according to a 2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper. Note that the grains processed were wild barley and possibly wild wheat. This is direct, unambiguous evidence that humans were eating grains deep into the Upper Paleolithic era, and 13,000 years before the end of the Paleolithic era and the beginning of domesticated grains, agriculture and civilization.
A paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the new discoveries of Paleolithic-era flour residues on 30,000-year-old grinding stones found in Italy, Russia and the Czech Republic. The grain residues are from a wild species of cattail and the grains of a grass called Brachypodium, which both offer a nutritional package comparable to wheat and barley.
Archeologists published a paper in the December, 2009, issue of Science unveiling their discovery in Mozambique of stone tools with thousands of wild grain residues on them dated to 105,000 years ago -- during the Middle Paleolithic. The grain was sorghum, and an ancestor of modern sorghum used even today in porridges, breads and beer.
Some Paleo diet advocates claim that while there is evidence of sorghum processing, there is no evidence that the practice was widespread or that the grain was sprouted and cooked in a way that made it nutritionally usable -- in fact, the dating shows usage of the grain well before the development of pottery.
This is true: There is no evidence of widespread use or cooking. It's also true that there is no evidence against it. We simply don't know.
It's easy to imagine how Paleolithic man might have processed grains for food. Essene bread, for example, is made by sprouting grains, mashing, forming into flat patties and cooking them on rocks in the sun, or on hot rocks from a fire. It's easy to sprout grains -- in fact, it's hard to keep them from sprouting without airtight containers or water-proof roofs.
Before the development of pottery, gourds were used for cooking and food storage and carrying. By filling a gourd with water and dropping rocks into it from a fire, the water boils. Into that boiling water, the addition of meat, vegetation and grains would make the most nutritious meal and the most efficient use of available foods. It would enable the removal nutrition from the marrow and creases of bones, soften root vegetables, improve the digestibility of foods like leaves. In other words, such cooking methods would not only be necessary to benefit from grains, but from a wide variety of other foods as well.
Other early neolithic methods for cooking grains, which we know about from ancient writing including the Old Testament, include cooking primitive bread on hot rocks in the sun and were methods available to Paleolithic people.
It's also interesting to speculate on fermentation of grains, something practiced by nearly all traditional cultures. If Paleolithic people gathered excess grains and carried them, the question is not whether they fermented them, but how they could have prevented them from fermenting.
None of these technologies -- sun-cooking, hot-rock frying and gourd-based boiling -- would leave a trace for archaeologists after 100,000 years.
The Paleo Diet belief that grain was consumed only as a cultivated crop, rather than wild, also fails the history test.
The grain we now call wild rice was a central part of the diets and cultures of Ojibwa peoples in Canada and North America, and an important food of the Algonquin, Dakota, Winnebago, Sioux, Fox and many other tribes through trade. There was even a tribe called the Menominee, or "Wild Rice People."
Native American and First Nation gatherers of this grain did so by canoe in a method prescribed by tribal law for at least 600 years when they were hunter-gatherers. The cereal crop was instrumental in enabling the Ojibwa people to surve incredibly harsh Northeastern winters, the annual success of which shocked early French explorers.
Today, most wild rice you can buy in the store is grown in paddies in California. However, the Ojibwa still harvest wild rice in canoes, and you can buy it from them on the Internet.
So now we can say it: Archeology has proved that grains were part of the Paleolithic diet. The anti-grain stance of modern Paleo dieters is based on incomplete archeology.
And it's time for Paleo diet fans cave-man up, admit the error and to start eating healthy, whole ancient grains.
Barley.
June 03, 2013 /Mike Elgan /Source
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Unknown hero finally gets his due...
One of the most somber places any American can visit is Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Thousands and thousands of our bravest are laid to rest there as a testament that the freedom we celebrated last week did not come without a heavy cost.
One of the most sacred sites in the cemetery, is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is patroled by uniformed soldiers around the clock, through all kinds of weather. That concern is symbolic that our nation will always respect, cherish and honor the lives sacrificed for our behalf.
Safety is a personal responsibility
The tragic death of a Shelby County man who was killed when he was swept away in swollen floodwaters as he attempted to cross a wash over bridge last week, is a reminder of just how fragile life can be and how one decision can change everything.
Share your outdoor experiences
Yes, we just endured another pretty mild winter, but the cold always seems to feel colder in February and March when we long for warmer weather, sunny skies and getting outdoors.
Spring is here and it’s always amazing at how quickly Kentucky turns green. If you pay attention, there are more leaves unfurled on your drive home than you noticed on your drive into work this morning. The change is rapid and the change is welcome!
A lean year is a learning year
The Spencer County Fiscal Court concluded last week that they are willing to suffer through a year of pain before rushing to raise insurance premium taxes on property owners.
Resolve to get involved in 2019
Flipping the calendar over to a brand new year brings new opportunities and fresh beginnings. It’s the time of year when many people make resolutions and resolve to break old habits or begin new ones.
This year, new elected officials begin new terms in Spencer County, and there’s a real chance for progress, as long as office holders will keep their focus on the county and not be distracted by petty differences, political spats or personality conflicts. It’s easier said than done, but citizens should demand it.
Thanks to all who served
Elected officials often hear criticism, and rarely hear praise. Of course, they sometimes do things taxpayers don’t like, and those who disagree are typically way more vocal than those who agree.
Still, as a number of elected officials prepare to leave office soon, it’s fitting to at least acknowledge their willingness to do an often thankless job that comes with a big target.
Now is the time to move forward
The debate in Spencer County is no longer whether we want change or not. Change is happening all around us. We can either try to manage it, or it will manage us.
Tis the Season for giving
It’s fitting that Thanksgiving ushers in the holiday season. What better way to prepare our hearts for Christmas than to pause, reflect and offer up thanks for all of our own blessings. Being grateful is a prelude to being generous.
Whether you’ve lived in Spencer County a short while or your entire life, you’ve probably come to recognize that this is a special community that cares for one another. Sure, there are exceptions, but as a community, we look out for each other, we care for each other, and we give like few other places.
Spencer County knows how to honor...
When you put several hundred middle schoolers inside a crowded gym, you would expect the noise to be deafening. But as a lone trumpeter played taps Friday morning to honor fallen veterans, there was not a peep, shuffle or whisper to be heard at Spencer County Middle School. It’s called respect and it was on full display this weekend at various Veterans Day events across the county.
It's time to move forward
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
A list of our endorsements
Tis the season when newspapers across the nation publish political endorsements. Most often, these are decided by newspaper staff members who arrogantly meet around a table and agree that they are better informed and more knowledgable than the average voter. So out of the goodness of their heart and civic minded charity, they share their superior knowledge with the general public in hopes that the election will turn out the way the newspaper prefers.
So without further ado, here are our endorsements:
Apprentice program a win-win for...
Learning a trade by being an apprentice has been a practice spanning centuries. A young person would be taken under the wing of a skilled craftsman or tradesperson, and learn from the master. It was hands-on training with immediate feedback, correction and encouragement.
How refreshing that apprenticeships seem to be making a comeback for young people. Spencer County Schools should be applauded for participating in this type of program.
Media must rediscover truth
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
Concert brings life to Main St.
It was kind of tough to get around in downtown Taylorsville Saturday night. Main Street was packed with people, and we’re not talking about just the sidewalks. The street itself was shut down, blocked by a huge stage where Spencer County native JD Shelburne returned home to launch a new CD.
It’s nice to see events that bring people together, especially in the heart of a community. Folks came with lawn chairs, lined them up in a mostly orderly fashion and one couldn’t help but notice that just about everyone had a smile on their face.
Preserving our history - all of it
By the time you finish reading this sentence, it will be history. History is like that – it happens just as quickly as the present becomes the past.
History is an important indicator of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are going. That’s why it’s vital that we study history, preserve history and appreciate history. But we must resist the temptation to get stuck in history.
Weeding out fake news
People who enjoy a good, productive garden, must invest a considerable amount of time and energy weeding out the bad and keeping the good. Left unattended, weeds can quickly overtake a garden in little time, not only hiding the good stuff, but choking it off and robbing it of nourishment as well.
To the careless or inexperienced gardener, it may be hard to tell the difference between weeds and crops. They’re all green, they grow in the dirt and it takes training and effort to discern the two.
Happy Birthday America
Spencer Countians are joining other Americans this week to celebrate America’s 242nd Birthday.
Born out of a fierce determination and longing to be a free, self-governing people, our forefathers and their families pledged their lives and fortunes 242 years ago by signing a letter declaring our independence from Great Britain. They did so by citing our dependence on the blessings of God and it took the blood and sacrifice of Americans from all 13 colonies to secure our liberty.
Today, America stands as a beacon for human freedom and liberty.
Billy W. Gray, 67
Fiscal Court urged to focus
Spencer County Fiscal Court got a dressing down Monday from a man who will soon take his seat at the court’s table. Jim Travis, who won May’s primary for magistrate in Elk Creek, requested permission to address the court and offered up a civil, but biting critique of the disfunction of county government over the past four years.
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1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4S NART Spyder
Written by Steve Ahlgrim
Luigi Chinetti recognized the viability of sporty open cars in the American market. The 250 GT SWB California Spyder in particular proved itself a resounding success. But whereas the 4-cam’s predecessor — the 275 GTB — offered a Spyder variant, the wind-in-your-hair alternative to the 275 GTB/4 was a 330 GTS.
As such, the 275 GTB/4S NART Spyder was born of a direct request from Luigi Chinetti to Ferrari. NART stands for North American Racing Team, the American face of Ferrari’s racing efforts. They were one of endurance racing’s most successful teams, with drivers that included the Rodriguez Brothers, Bob Grossman, Masten Gregory, Phil Hill, Jean Guichet and many others. Lending the NART name to the new car and embellishing it with a NART badge made it unique in Ferrari history. This new model was unlike anything Ferrari had built before. Road & Track magazine called it “the most satisfying sports car in the world” and featured it on their cover.
The NART Spider was an open-top version of a 275 GTB/4. The powerful lines of the car were a welcome change from the rather demure 275 and 330 GTS. With over 300 horsepower, a 4-cam, 3.2-liter V12 fed from six Weber carburetors, a 5-speed gearbox, and 4-wheel independent suspension, the car had the performance to back up its styling.
Only 10 NART Spyders were built, and not all of them were equal. Some were built in alloy and some in steel. Some were originally built up as an open-top model and others were built from converted coupe panels. The first NART chassis was raced very successfully at Sebring, and it was later featured in the Steve McQueen film “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Another NART was ordered new by McQueen after he filmed the movie.
This particular car was originally finished in Azzurro Metallizzato (Metallic Blue). A recent inspection confirmed the exceptional condition of the car and how well it has been preserved over the course of its life. The body lines are excellent, and the car’s presentation is thoroughly correct. It runs and drives nicely, pulling through the gears with tremendous power and stopping without issue.
10709’s exceptional purity, matching numbers, and one-owner history makes it unique among NARTs — and particularly desirable. 10709’s offering at auction is quite simply an unrepeatable — and almost unbelievable — opportunity.
Steve Ahlgrim
Steve Ahlgrim - SCM Contributing Editor - %%page%%
Steve taught high school auto shop before moving to Atlanta, GA, where his love of sports cars led him to FAF Motorcars, the former Ferrari dealer where he served as General Manager and Vice President. He has been a self-proclaimed “one-trick pony,” coveting the Ferrari marque. He has been involved in concours judging for over 25 years and is a member of the IAC/PFA, an international committee overseeing high-level Ferrari concours judging. He is chief judge of the Celebration Exotic Car Show in Celebration, FL.
Posted in Ferrari
← 1954 Mercedes-Benz W-196 Formula One Racer
1969 Ferrari 365 GTC →
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Family Wellness Night at Georges P. Vanier Catholic School a Huge Success
More than 175 students and parents attended a Family Wellness Night at Georges P. Vanier Catholic School in Chatham recently.
"It was a fantastic event with tremendous support and participation from many community partners," says Americo Todino, Principal of Georges P. Vanier Catholic School. "I want to thank everyone who attended!"
The evening was organized by the Georges P. Vanier Catholic School Advisory Council and funded through a Parent Reaching Out Grant. The goal was to promote health and wellness.
Council members sought out community partners who were willing to share information about living a healthy lifestyle. Participating agencies included CK Public Health, the Kent Dairy Association, CK Recreation, YMCA Chatham-Kent and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. In addition, representatives of Cornell Irish Dance, Pure Dance, Blenheim Golden Eagles Gymnastics Club, Peak Athletic, the Chatham Granite Club, DrumFit and Cobra Taekwondo were also on hand to provide demonstrations.
In keeping with the theme for the evening, an army of parents and school volunteers helped prepare healthy snacks, including wraps, veggies and fruit.
"It was a busy evening," says Mr. Todino. "Our school library and eight classrooms were needed to host all of our visitor booths and interactive centres. Thanks also to our Grade 7 and 8 students, who helped run events and stamp participation passports."
In the photo (above) students participate in a Taekwondo demonstration.
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10 new signings, 7 players re-sign - but Duffy and Burgess among Daniels departures
By James Bedford
james.bedford@iliffepublishing.co.uk
Daniels boss Graham Drury has declared himself delighted with his extensive summer recruitment campaign following the departure of several influential players.
Ten new signings have been unveiled by the Northern Premier League South East club during the past seven days with Drury so far also retaining the services of seven of last season’s squad.
Harry Vince, Jack Keeble, Danny Setchell and Daniel Swan were newcomers to the Daniels ranks this week after Mike Armstrong, Rob Morgan, Jon Challinor, Josh Egginton, Liam Adams, Ollie Brown-Hill and goalkeeper Dan Haystead agreed to extend their stays at the Zeeco Stadium.
Jack Keeble, Harry Vince and Danny Setchell. (13394746)
That followed on from Charlie Ward, Sean Wright, Sam Hill, Tom Siddons, Ollie Luto and Cleveland Taylor all agreeing terms last week.
However, last season’s skipper Jake Duffy and top goalscorer Joe Burgess have departed the Daniels with Southern League Central Division side Corby Town their likely destination.
Ryan Seal is also expected to join United Counties League Premier Division side Rugby Town while Academy graduate Harry Peasgood is set to link up with former Daniels assistant boss Danny Hussey at Holbeach United. Jordon Cooke and Gregg Smith have already been announced as new signings by Matlock and Grantham respectively.
Drury commented: “I’m pleased with all the signings. They are just the type of players we’re looking for.
“Danny Setchell scored 12 goals and got 24 assists for Wisbech last season which is a cracking return. He’s very good at the dead balls and is a free-kick specialist who will chip in with goals.
“Jack Keeble was manager’s players of the year at Wisbech last season and he’s a lad I’ve always been impressed with.
“He was with Grimsby Town so he’s had a decent footballing education. He wants to do well in the game and I’m chuffed to have him.
“Harry Vince is an all-action player who is full of energy and, for a young lad, he’s had a lot of higher level experience with Matlock, Grantham and Boston United.
“He’s another high energy player which is what we’re looking for because that’s going to be the key for us this year.
“We’ve got youth, experience with the likes of Cleveland Taylor, Jon Challinor and Dan Haystead as well as mid-age range players like Mike Armstrong and Rob Morgan while Dan Swan gives us good competition in the goalkeeping department as well so I’m pretty pleased with my recruitment so far.”
Dan Swan has returned to the Daniels after spells with Wisbech Town and Pinchbeck United. (13395383)
The departure of Duffy comes after the midfield play-maker has spent the past four seasons with Stamford having followed boss Drury to the club from Holbeach United.
He will always be remembered by the Daniels faithful for scoring the goal at Wrexham that put Stamford into the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history.
Drury said: “It’s the right time for Jake to move on. I feel he needs a new challenge.
“He’s always been very loyal to myself and we’ve worked together for a long time so it was difficult decision for both of us, but it’s the right time for both parties for him to try something different.
“He’s been a great player for us and he’s been a pleasure to work with. He was my skipper for a reason because he’s really good to have in the changing rooms, but he’s gone for the right reasons.”
Burgess was Stamford’s top scorer last season with 12 goals and also got Drury’s vote as manager’s player of the year.
The Daniels manager added: “Joe did really well last year so it’s tough to lose him after his high-quality performances.”
Jake Duffy and Joe Burgess have both departed the Daniels. (13395537)
Drury will be assisted for the coming campaign by the returning Paul Holden who will be supported by Jon Challinor - in a joint playing role - and Alex Cross.
Mike Hogg will be the goalkeeper coach, supported by Tom Haystead, with Natalie Halliday appointed as the new physio.
Posh boss Darren Ferguson will be sending his entire first team squad to Stamford on Wednesday night for the Daniels’ opening pre-season friendly.
The League One’s side visit to the Zeeco Stadium (kick-off 7.30pm) is their first pre-season match on English soil after returning from a training camp in La Manga.
Ferguson said: “Players will be limited to 45 minutes apiece.”
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COUNTY NEWS: Baby girl born in hospital car park
Ben Deeprose and Zoe Pym pictured with Kaya-Rae and Freddie. SUS-180419-104526001
Richard Gladstone
A mother ended up giving birth to her baby daughter in a Sussex hospital’s car park on Sunday (April 15).
Zoe Pym, 25, had to be rushed to hospital by her family after her waters broke at home.
Baby Kaya-Rae started making an appearance en route to the Conquest Hospital in St Leonards.
She was delivered in the car by Zoe’s mum.
Zoe’s partner, Ben Deeprose, 36, of Reginald Road, Bexhill, said: “On Sunday Zoe had just got out the bath when her waters broke so we rang the Conquest to let them know we were coming.
“When she arrived at the hospital she was put on a contraction monitor and blood pressure check.
“But half an hour later we were sent home as the contractions were not happening close enough.
“After an hour and a half at home Zoe’s contractions started getting very much more frequent so I rang the hospital again to say we were returning.
“At this point my partner was screaming, saying she was about to have the baby. My mother-in-law came to take us back to the hospital and we had to physically lift Zoe off the sofa into the car.
“We went as fast as we could and as we went past Bexhill fire station Zoe was screaming that the baby’s head was coming out.
“We were trying to keep her as calm as possible. I was in absolute shock and phoned the hospital again, saying midwives needed to meet us at the door.”
When the family arrived at the Conquest, Ben rushed inside to summon midwives.
He added: “I was gone no more than three minutes. When I came running back my mother-in-law was crying and screaming, saying she had delivered the baby.
Heroic members of the public rescue 'very distressed man' from the sea near Worthing Pier
“There was no sound from the baby and she was very blue. The midwives cut the cord in the car.
“The baby was rushed into hospital and we were all scared as hell.
“My partner lost a litre of blood and was stitched up and put on a drip. It was the scariest moment of my life.”
Ben said his baby daughter was originally due on April 12 and that his partner was coincidentally expected to be induced on Sunday at the Conquest.
Thankfully, baby Kaya-Rae was born a healthy 7lb and 3oz and after spending the night at the Conquest is now back at home with her two brothers and family.
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Above: The Official SUPA logo
To aspire for a better network of Pharmacists.
To aspire towards a more holistic education.
To aspire to lend a hand to the needy in the community.
To aspire for a healthier lifestyle.
To aspire to defend their profession and its values.
To build a community of friends and professionals, built around honesty, respect and caring for people.
The Sydney University Pharmacy Association (SUPA) is the representative body for students studying a Bachelor or Masters of Pharmacy at the Sydney Pharmacy School in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, Australia.
SUPA was established with a vision to unite and inspire students to step outside the boundaries of academic life and to excel.
S.H. Stroud first founded SUPA under the name “Sydney University Pharmaceutical Association” in 1920. It was officially renamed to the current title “Sydney University Pharmacy Association” in 1963, with the late Les Cashen AM as President. We proudly provide students with academic, educational, and networking opportunites. Furthermore, we provide access to pharmacist-specific services, advice, representation and organise social events for our 800+ subscribed members and 1300+ pharmacy students.
SUPA is amongst the largest societies on campus and has been successful in winning University of Sydney Union awards, including the Club/Society of the Year Award, Publications Award, Most Improved Audit award and Best Audit award. SUPA prides itself on providing high quality representation and services to benefit the social and academic lives of students.
SUPA is the largest branch of and a founding member of the National Australian Pharmacy Students' Association (NAPSA).
Above: Unofficial SUPA logo redesigned in 2018
Benefits of SUPA Membership:
Access to educational courses - complementary medicines, wound care and first aid courses
SUPA careers night, SHPA hospital pharmacy night
SUPAC – an annual educational careers conference for USYD Pharmacy students
Automatic membership to NAPSA and IPSF
Discounted prices for textbooks and educational material
Second-hand book sales
Participation in sporting events such as interfaculty sport and charity matches
Social events including BBQ's, Pub Crawl's, Trivia night's, Cruise's and a Yearly Graduation Gala Ball
Ability to attend yearly NAPSA congress as a member of SUPA
Networking opportunities with various professional bodies including the PSA, SHPA, Caruso's, Mediadvice and Pharmacy Club
Access to a variety of professional publications including Australian Prescriber, Australian Pharmacist and NPS Medicinewise factsheets
Merchandise including Hoodies and T-shirts
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Anonymous, Gregorian Chant, Giovanni Pergolesi
Credo: 1000 Years of Sacred Music (Box Set)
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
Emendemus in Melius
Attende Domine
Tibi Domine derelictus est pauper
Iesu, Quadragenariae Dicator Abstinentiae
Audi, benigne Conditor, hymn, Mode 2
Vexilla regis prodeunt, hymn in mode 1 (Liber Usualis No. 575)
Christus factus est, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis, No 655)
Nos autem gloriari oportet, for Easter
Three Antiphons for the Ceremony of the Washing of Feet
Ubi caritas et amor [Ubi caritas est vera], antiphon in mode 6 (Liber Usualis No. 675; GR 207)
De Lamentatione Ieremiae Prophetae
Tenebrae factea sunt, responsory
Ecce Lignum
Exsultet iam angelica turba caelorum
Victimae paschali laudes, sequence in mode 1 for Easter (1. T/GR 198, Liber Usualis No. 780)
Salve festa dies, hymn in mode 4
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 1, 'Stabat Mater'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 2, 'Cuius animam'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 3, 'O quam tristis'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 4, 'Quae moerebat'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 5, 'Quis est homo'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 6, 'Vidit suum dulcem Natum'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 7, 'Eia Mater'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 8, 'Fac ut ardeat'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 9, 'Sancta Mater'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 10, 'Fac ut portem'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 11, 'Inflammatus et accensus'
Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F major: No. 12, 'Quando Corpus morietur' / No. 13, 'Amen'
Salve regina, for (mezzo-)soprano, strings & organ in C minor
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56
St. John Passion (Johannespassion), BWV 245 (BC D2)
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Requiem aeternam
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Kyrie
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Dies irae
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Tuba mirum
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Rex tremendae
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Recordare
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Confutatis
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Lacrimosa
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Domine Deus
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Hostias
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Sanctus
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Benedictus
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Agnus Dei
Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Lux aeterna
Track Listings (6) - Disc #8
Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in C major, Op. 86
Vesperae de Dominica, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 321: Laudate Dominum
Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano & orchestra, K. 165 (K. 158a)
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 1, 'Requiem aeternam'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 3, 'Dies irae'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 4, 'Tuba mirum'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 5, 'Quid sum miser'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 6, 'Recordare'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 7, 'Confutatis maledictis'
Track Listings (5) - Disc #10
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 8, 'Lacrimosa'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 9, 'Offertorium'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 10, 'Hostias et preces'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 11, 'Sanctus'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 12, 'Pie Jesu'
Requiem for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, B. 165 (Op. 89): No. 13, 'Agnus Dei'
Track Listings (15) - Disc #11
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 1, Introitus et Kyrie
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 2, Offertorium
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 3, Sanctus
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 4, Pie Jesu
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 5, Agnus Dei
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 6, Libera me
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: No. 7, In Paradisum
Cantique de Jean Racine, for 4-part chorus & organ (or orchestra), Op. 11
Ave verum Corpus, motet for chorus, strings & organ, K. 618
Locus iste, gradual for chorus in C major, WAB 23
Ave verum, motet for chorus, Op. 2/1
Ave verum corpus (also anthem: 'O Lord, God of Israel'), motet for 4 voices (SATB)
Ave Maris Stella, for double chorus
Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
Requiem, for orchestra, organ & chorus; for organ & chorus; for small ensemble, organ & chorus, Op. 9 (3 versions): Pie Jesu
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Requiem
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Dies Irae
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Tuba mirum
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Liber scriptus
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Quid sum miser
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Rex tremendae
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Recordare
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Ingemisco
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Confutatis
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Lacrymosa
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Offertorio
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Sanctus
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Agnus Dei
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Lux aeterna
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Libera me
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 1 Urod (Introitus)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 2 Gospodi pomiluy (Kyrie)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 3 Slava (Gloria)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 4 Veruju (Credo)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 5 Svet (Sanctus)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 6 Agnece Bozij (Agnus Dei)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 7 Postlude (organ solo)
Mass (Msa glagolskaja) for soloists, double chorus, orchestra & organ ('Glagolitic Mass'), JW 3/9: No. 8 Intrada (Exodus)
Festival Te Deum, for trumpet, chorus & organ, Op. 32
Rejoice in the Lamb, festival cantata for trumpet, ATB soloists, chorus & organ, Op. 30
Rejoice, Virgin Mother of God (Bogoroditse, Devo, Raduisya)
Tebe Poem (We Hymn Thee, We Bless Thee), for chorus
Praise the Lord, O my soul (Blagoslavi dushe moya), for chorus
God, Deliver the Devout (Gospodi, spassi blagochestiviya)
Heruvimska Pesen (Song of the Cherubim), for chorus
Our Father (Otche Nash)
Hvalite imya gospodne (Praise Ye the Name of the Lord)
Litany of Supplication
In Thy Kingdom (Vo Tsartvii Tvoem)
Evening sacrifice
O Gladsome Radiance (Svete tihii)
Great Doxology (Veliko slavoslavie)
God is with Us (S nami Bog), for tenor & chorus, Op. 40/6
Deliver O God Thy People
Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: I. Psalm 108 vs. 2 & Psalm 100, entire
Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: II. Psalm 23, entire & Psalm 2, vs. 1-4
Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: III. Psalm 131 entire & Psalm 133, vs. 1 (to be sung in Hebrew)
Gloria for chorus & brass ensemble: Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria for chorus & brass ensemble: Domine Deus, Rex caelestis
Gloria for chorus & brass ensemble: Quoniam tu solus sanctus
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise, for men's chorus, FP 142: No 1, Salut, Dame Sainte
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise, for men's chorus, FP 142: No 2, Tout Puissant Dieu
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise, for men's chorus, FP 142: No 3, Seigneur,Je Vous En Prie
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise, for men's chorus, FP 142: No 4, O Mes Tres Chers Freres
Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus & organ (or strings & timpani), FP 82
Exultate Deo, motet for solemn occasions, for chorus, FP 109
Salve Regina, for chorus, FP 110
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All Artists: Anonymous, Gregorian Chant, Giovanni Pergolesi, George Frederick Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Gabriel Faure, Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar, William [Composer] Byrd, Edvard Grieg, Antonio Lotti, Cesar Franck, Maurice Durufle, Giuseppe Verdi, Leos Janacek, Benjamin Britten, Alexander Grechaninov
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This meeting attracts some very big names, besides just TV stars and Nobel laureates. Perhaps the most important person to speak here today was Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU may be the most falsely defamed organization in America. These people have devoted their lived to protecting the Constitution. That’s an act that a lot of politicians appear to have forgotten.
Ms. Strossen gave an impassioned talk about how the government is trying to destroy science in this country. She focused on medical laws, including drug laws, sex (mis)education, and Oregon’s Death with Dignity act, but she (of course) talked at length about creationism. There have been some big victories lately (like Dover, Pennsylvania and California), but the fight goes on.
She quoted the ACLU’s first leader, who said: "No fight for civil liberties ever stays won." That’s so very true, which in turn calls to mind Wendell Phillips: "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
Between what she was saying, and what we’re seeing happening with school boards across this country, it’s easy to be discouraged. But it’s also good to know that whistleblowers are out there. In the case of Ms. Strossen, she shines a very strong light on some very shady dealings. It’s up to us not to flinch as we look at what she’s saying, to take action to protect our rights, and to protect the truth.
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How does the Sound System mount in the helmet? Do I need to install it?
The Sound System fits the best when you slide the two speakers behind the helmet liner into the ear holes. That keeps it in place and is situated in a way where you can't even feel that the speakers are there.
Can I plug it into my MP3 Player or other non-bluetooth device?
The black bluetooth box has a port that you can use to plug in any standard auxiliary chord. However, the speakers themselves cannot plug directly into a playing device.
How loud is it?
The Syphon Sound System can exceed 100dbs. In other words...it's insanely loud.
What is that black box?
Inside the "black box" is the battery, bluetooth chip, and amplifiers for the speakers.
Why do you need the black box?
These speakers run off a very different type of power than typical speakers/headphones. What this means is that you need an amplifying source to get the speakers to work, and that's what's inside the box.
How's the sound quality?
Great! The primary feature of the Syphon Sound System is that it is the most comfortable sound system on the planet. It is also engineered to give you loud and clear sound while riding. Loud situations, like riding a snowmobile, dirtbike, or on the slopes, have high levels of low frequency sound waves that can make it difficult to hear your tunes clearly. Our system was designed with this in mind and focuses on the higher frequencies that don't compete with loud noises around you, allowing you to hear your music loud and clear.
How do I adjust the speakers to fit different head sizes?
Since the speakers are so thin and lightweight, fitting them to your head size/comfort level is really easy. Some people wrap it around the back of their head, others slide the speakers behind the liner in the ear holes, we've even seen some place the speakers around the front of their helmet. You can fit it just about anywhere in your headwear.
Is there any sound leakage that might disturb others around me?
In our testing we haven't run into this issue. If you are in a quiet room with the volume turned up, there may be some sound leakage, but on the slopes/out and about where there is more ambient noise, we haven't noticed any sound leakage.
Is it water proof?
Our speakers are "sweat proof." The two stereo speakers are covered by a sleeve that is made with neoprene and a poly-elastane blend which protects the speakers from perspiration. The speakers themselves are also engineered in a way that repels moisture build up, so you can take the speakers out of the sleeve and still not have to worry about sweat or snow. Dunking the speakers in water will short out the electrical current in the wires, though, so it's not "waterproof"
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Samsung planning Apple iPad competitor
By Gareth Beavis 2010-02-23T11:49:00.53Z Mobile computing
Promises a 'response' to Jobs' jumbo iPhone
Samsung planning to play ball in tablet market
Samsung has promised that it will react to Apple's iPad announcement, believing that it will create a new category in the market.
JK Shin, president of Samsung's mobile division, said that the company is interested in the new segment.
Speaking to Bloomberg he said the company will respond to Apple's announcement, although stating that it's too early to give out any more details.
Dual role
Samsung also provides part of the CPU used in the iPad, leading to an interesting situation where it would be both a competitor and a supplier to Apple - although with very different parts of the company,
"This is normal, we have to compete in the market," Shin told Bloomberg. "At the same time, they are our customer and we are the supplier of components to them."
In related news, the Apple iPad has been given a tentative pre-order date in the US of 25 February for the Wi-Fi-only version of the tablet according to AppAdvice - although this is very much an unconfirmed rumour by the site.
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Trump’s new Venezuela envoy Elliot Abrams a ‘polarizing’ figure
John Haltiwanger and Mariana Alfaro
The Trump administration last week tapped Elliot Abrams, a hawkish foreign policy veteran with a complicated history and reputation in Washington, as its envoy to Venezuela to deal with the escalating crisis there.
Abrams will be the administration’s point man in its efforts to oust Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, and will be working closely with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in that capacity.
In appointing Abrams, some in the foreign policy community seem to fear that the White House could be stumbling toward intervention in Venezuela, which is an unsettling prospect to many given the US government’s long, calamitous history of sticking its nose in Latin America’s business.
Abrams was a key player in the US’ disastrous Latin American interventionism in the Reagan era
Abrams, who has recently been working as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, served as a top foreign policy adviser in the administrations of both former President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush.
He was instrumental in pushing the US to prioritize thwarting Marxism in Latin America for a significant portion of the Cold War. During that era, both before and during the height of Abrams’ influence, the US orchestrated coups against democratically elected leaders, propped up dictators, and directly aided and trained death squads in the region. The consequences of the US government’s activities in Latin America, especially Central America, are still being felt to this day.
Read more: Meet Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela who’s challenging Nicolas Maduro for power
In the early 1990s, Abrams was convicted of misleading Congress in the Iran-Contra affair, but was ultimately pardoned by President George H.W. Bush. Abrams had been a staunch advocate of arming the rebel Contras in Nicaragua. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about covert efforts to assist the rebels.
Then-Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams being sworn in at Iran-Contra hearings.
Terry Ashe/Getty Images
Critics say Abrams has downplayed human rights abuses committed by dictators the US aligned with under Reagan
He’s also been accused of working to cover up human rights abuses and atrocities in Latin America linked to his time with the Reagan administration, and was one of the architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
According to a Human Rights Watch report, Abrams in testimony to the Senate “artfully distorted several issues in order to discredit the public accounts” of the infamous December 1981 massacre of nearly 1,000 people in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote. The mass killing was committed by forces trained and equipped by the US.
Human Rights Watch was unavailable to comment on Abrams’ appointment as envoy to Venezuela.
Read more: Trump is decrying Maduro’s authoritarianism in Venezuela as he simultaneously embraces the region’s newest strongman in Brazil
While serving as assistant secretary of state for human rights during the Reagan administration, Abrams fervently supported arming Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt.
As the Guatemalan dictator carried out a bloody campaign against indigenous Mayans in the 1980s, Abrams claimed Montt “brought considerable progress” on human rights issues and was reducing the number of civilian deaths “step by step.” Montt in 2013 was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Abrams has also faced allegations of supporting an attempted military coup in Venezuela in 2002. The failed coup helped solidify the power of Hugo Chavez – Maduro’s predecessor and the father of the socialist revolution in Venezuela – and bolstered his image as an anti-imperialist hero among Venezuelans.
Former Venezuelan army paratrooper Hugo Chavez waves to supporters from the door of the Congress building moments after being sworn-in as the country’s new president, in Caracas, Venezuela February 2, 1999.
Kimberly White/Reuters
Abrams was pardoned over his role in the infamous Iran-Contra affair, but many haven’t forgotten
Given Abrams’ convoluted, controversial background in Latin America and world affairs more generally, some experts question why the Trump administration didn’t look to someone else to spearhead its efforts against Maduro.
“I was surprised,” said Brown University Professor Ross Cheit, a political science scholar who’s led projects on the Iran-Contra affair. “I’d certainly heard reports that he had been nixed for top positions at the State Department, and I would certainly say his Iran-Contra days are infamous.”
Abrams, Cheit said, was involved in soliciting private donations for the Contras from foreign governments who were encouraged to “voluntarily give money” to the cause. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cheit said, asked Abrams if he was soliciting money from other people, a notion he denied, saying the White House was not encouraging people to do that.
Read more: As tensions in Venezuela heighten, Marco Rubio says US should ‘go big’ on its relationship with Brazil’s new right-wing president
“They were blatant lies. He had solicited foreign governments. He knew there was money in Swiss bank accounts, and he lied to Congress,” Cheit told INSIDER. “He was convicted of two felonies, and I know he was pardoned, but he certainly lied to Congress.”
Cheit pointed out that Abrams’ appointment as US envoy to Venezuela coincidentally occurred days after Roger Stone was indicted for lying to Congress.
“People are giving some attention to what we should think about people who lie to Congress,” he said. “Some people have never taken that crime very seriously.”
Abrams, Cheit said, embodies a certain American arrogance and inclination to get involved in other countries’ conflicts. The man, Cheit said, has “a willingness” to conduct “adventurous” interventions in Latin America — and a deep disregard for Congress.
“It’s alarming to have someone who was involved in that get an important role in the current government,” he said.
In December 1987, Nicaraguan contra rebel field commander Enrique Bermudez, left, is applauded by then-Sub-Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Elliot Abrams, December 12th, at a ‘Day of the Freedom Fighter’ program sponsored by the Concerned Citizens for Democracy. More than 1,00 persons attended.
Abrams’ appointment seems to signal America’s willingness to do whatever it takes to bring Maduro down
Cynthia J. Arnson, director of the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program, told INSIDER that there “were several other outstanding possibilities that would not have been as polarizing as Elliot Abrams, who … for people who remember his role in Central America, is likely to raise some eyebrows on the Democratic side of the aisle.”
“That said, I’m not sure how many members of the House or the Senate were around in the bad old days of the Central America wars,” she added.
Arnson said there were other “credible” people who could’ve filled the role, but added that Abrams’ appointment is “consistent with other foreign policy appointments that Trump has made.”
“What so many people question are [Abrams’] human rights and democracy credentials on an issue like El Salvador where he was part of a Reagan administration effort to deny abuses,” Arnson added. “It is certainly a very problematic record.”
While some might feel Abrams’ appointment is a sign the Trump administration favors a military intervention in Venezuela, Arnson seems to feel that’s a premature assessment. “I don’t see the naming of Abrams as providing any indication whatsoever that military options are moving further along, I think that’s a false connection to make,” she said.
The White House has said that all options are on the table in Venezuela, including the use of military force.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a military exercise in Valencia, Venezuela January 27, 2019.
Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS
Meanwhile, Latin America historian Alejandro Velasco, a professor at New York University, said a Venezuelan opposition movement that is seeking to promote human rights, democracy, and self-determination should not desire to align itself with Abrams.
“When one thinks about Elliott Abrams, you don’t associate any of those things with him,” he told INSIDER. America’s selection of Abrams, Velasco added, signals its willingness to do “whatever it takes to make sure that the Maduro government falls.”
Read more: Bolton’s notepad reveals Trump is considering sending 5,000 troops to Colombia amid Venezuela crisis
“They’re not playing around, they’re not diddle-dawdling,” he said. “This is a signal that’s being sent not just to Venezuela and the Maduro government, but it’s also being sent to people like Putin in Russia, to the Chinese, to Turkey, that the strategy here is regime change in as quick a time frame as possible.”
Last week, the US threw its support behind Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who the Venezuelan National assembly named as the country’s interim president. Other South American countries, including Brazil and Colombia, also recognized Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, angering Maduro. But Velasco raised the concern that the opposition’s reputation — internationally and domestically — might be compromised by an allegiance with Abrams.
“It takes so much of their credibility on the promotion of democracy, human rights, and self-determination to align so closely with somebody like Abrams and somebody like John Bolton,” he said.
The White House is standing by Abrams despite criticism of his record
Experts seem to be in agreement that much of Abrams record is deeply troubling and has unsettling implications for Trump’s policy in Venezuela and Latin America more broadly.
With that said, Arnson also emphasized that Abrams played a key role in decrying Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet’s human rights abuses in the 1980s, highlighting the mixed nature of his history and influence in Washington.
“Abrams,” she said, “was very active in efforts to bring about a return to democracy in Chile at a time when General Pinochet was in power.”
General Augusto Pinochet, head of Chile’s ruling military junta, holds a news conference at Santiago’s War College on September 21, 1973. Pinochet states that neither the US nor any other foreign nation was involved in the coup d’etat that overthrew the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende.
Kathryn Sikkink, a Harvard professor and human rights policy expert, said that the best one could hope for right now is that Abrams’ policy in Venezuela aligns more with his work in Chile than his work in Central America.
“What we hope now is something along the lines of when the US government realized that they should be with civil society in Chile and they should support the plebiscite vote,” she said. That vote, she said, stopped “Pinochet from his attempt to endure himself in power.”
“That turned out to be very successful,” she said. “So there is a model of the US government taking the side on behalf of democracy against an authoritarian leader, one that it had cozied up to previously, and it was a very successful outcome.”
It is because of Abrams’ key role in the successful take-down of Pinochet that the Trump administration, perhaps, does not appear to agree with the notion Abrams is a “polarizing” figure, despite his past.
National Security Adviser John Bolton vehemently rejected the notion Abrams is not the right man for the job.
“Elliott is exactly the type of tough-minded foreign policy veteran necessary to overcome the oppression and destabilizing corruption that is facing Venezuela,” Bolton told INSIDER. “I have personally known him for years, and he is more than qualified to approach the fundamental human rights challenges in the region.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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FILE - This July 20, 1983 file photo shows Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) in Washington, DC. Hollings, a moderate six-term Democrat who made an u
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2004 file photo, Sen. Ernest ''Fritz'' Hollings, D-S.C., who is retiring in January, addresses the Senate on Capitol Hill in
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the funeral of Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings (all times local):
Politicians, colleagues, admirers and friends have begun to arrive at funeral services for South Carolina's Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, one of the last larger-than-life Democrats who once dominated the politics of the South.
Former Gov. Dick Riley, state Democratic Chairman Trav Robertson and associate Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison were among those gathering Tuesday ahead of 11 a.m. services at Summerall Chapel at The Citadel in Charleston.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be among the speakers.
Hollings died earlier this month at 97. The funeral caps off three days of mourning for the former governor and longtime U.S. senator, whose body lay in repose Monday at the state Capitol.
When he retired from the Senate in 2005, Hollings had served 38 years and two months, making him the eighth longest-serving senator in U.S. history.
Mourners are gathering to say goodbye to South Carolina's Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, one of the last larger-than-life Democrats who once dominated the politics of the South.
Funeral services are set to begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Summerall Chapel at The Citadel in Charleston. Former Vice President Joe Biden is among the speakers.
Hollings' long and colorful political career included an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. When he retired from the Senate in 2005, Hollings had served 38 years and two months, making him the eighth longest-serving senator in U.S. history.
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Single Fin Showdown is back
Go back in time and watch competitors from all over the country surf surfboards from the 1960s and '70s. It is fun for the entire family.
Single Fin Showdown is back Go back in time and watch competitors from all over the country surf surfboards from the 1960s and '70s. It is fun for the entire family. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/martin-county/reader-submitted/2018/01/24/single-fin-showdown-back/1063448001/
Mark Knaffler, YourNews contributor Published 5:13 p.m. ET Jan. 24, 2018
Pro Surfer Cory Lopez and Brooke Thabit with a Cronin Single Fin Surfboard to raffle at the Single Fin Showdown on March 24.(Photo: CONTRIBUTED BY MARK HILL)
HUTCHINSON ISLAND — The Single FIn Showdown, presented by Ohana Surf Shop, is back for its 10th year.
The contest features professional surfers and skim boarders, live music, raffles and more.
Raffle prizes already include a single-fin surfboard shaped by Craig Cronin and guitars signed by Jack Johnson, G Love, JJ Grey and Donovan Frankenreither.
This Retro Surf and Skim contest benefits Brooke Thabit.
Thabit was a senior at Jensen Beach High School when she dove into shallow water, shattering her C6 and C7 vertabrae. She now attends Savannah College of Art and Design and is getting stronger everyday.
One hundred percent of all money raised goes directly to the Brooke Holly Thabit trust fund to keep her in physical therapy.
To date, the SFS has raised more than $35,000 for the United Way of Martin County and $75,000 for Brooke Thabit.
2017 Single Fin Showdown's awards ceremony included World Champion surfer CJ Hobgood. (Photo: CONTRIBUTED BY MARK HILL)
The SFS will be at Stuart Public Beach on Saturday, March 24. For sponsorship information or just to donate, please contact Ohana Surf Shop at 772 287-0041.
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Spectacular fireworks - Centennial style - wow crowd at Vero Beach's Fourth of July celebration
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Cobalt exports from the U.S. 2010-2018
Cobalt exports of the United States from 2010 to 2018 (in metric tons)
by M. Garside, last edited Apr 8, 2019
This statistic shows the exports of cobalt from the United States from 2010 to 2018, in metric tons. In 2018, the U.S. exported 7,700 metric tons of cobalt. The production of cobalt through imported nickel-copper-cobalt matte was stopped in 1985.
Exports of cobalt in metric tons
This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report.
* Estimated.
Major countries based on cobalt reserves 2018
Cobalt - mine production by major countries 2014-2018
Cobalt mine production in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2008-2018
Cobalt's average spot price in the U.S. 2008-2018
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Worldwide mine production of cobalt from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt mine production worldwide 2008-2018
Major countries in worldwide cobalt mine production from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt - mine production by major countries 2014-2018
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2018 by country*Distribution of global cobalt production by country 2018
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2016, by companyDistribution of cobalt production worldwide by producer 2016
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Mine production of cobalt in DR Congo from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt mine production in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2008-2018
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Leading producers of cobalt worldwide in 2017 and 2018 based on output (in metric tons)Leading cobalt producers worldwide 2017 & 2018
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Refinery production of cobalt in China from 2008 to 2015 (in metric tons)*Cobalt refinery production in China 2008-2015
Selected cobalt production projects scheduled between 2016 and 2020, by capacity (in metric tons)Annual production capacity of top cobalt projects 2016-2020
Cobalt secondary production in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Secondary production of cobalt in the U.S. 2014-2018
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Value of cobalt imports to the United States from 2012 to 2016, by form (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)U.S. cobalt import value by form 2012-2016
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Cobalt exports of the United States from 2010 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt exports from the U.S. 2010-2018
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Cobalt demand annual growth rate worldwide from 2008 to 2018Global cobalt demand annual growth rate 2008-2018
Reported and apparent cobalt consumption in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Comparison of cobalt consumption in the U.S. 2014-2018
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Distribution of global cobalt demand by industry 2016
Production of cobalt in Canada by province 2018
Production value of cobalt in Canada by province 2018
Madagascar's cobalt mine production 2014-2018
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Global distribution of cobalt production by region 2015
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Cobalt export volume United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2014
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Cobalt reserves worldwide as of 2018, by country (in metric tons)
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Cobalt secondary production in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Cobalt imports of the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)*
Value of cobalt imports to the United States from 2012 to 2016, by form (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
Distribution of U.S. cobalt imports between 2014 and 2017, by country of origin
Cobalt demand worldwide from 2010 to 2025 (in 1,000 tons)
Cobalt demand worldwide from 2010 to 2025, by end use (in 1,000 tons)
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Distribution of cobalt production from mines worldwide in 2015, by region
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Volume of cobalt exported from Belgium from 2008 to 2014 (in metric tons)
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Volume of cobalt imported to the Czech Republic from 2008 to 2014 (in tonnes)
Approximate volume of cobalt imported to the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014 (in tonnes)
Monthly value of aluminium ores and concentrates exports from Turkey from January 2017 to July 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
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Fine liability in antitrust cases is closely scrutinised by Dutch courts
Fine liability in antitrust cases is closely scrutinised by Dutch cou
A parent company can be held liable for a subsidiary's anti-competitive conduct if the parent has exercised decisive influence over the subsidiary, because the two are then considered a single undertaking. This is why the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (CBb) recently found that the ACM cannot simply rely on managing partners' civil liability to determine fine liability for a limited partnership's anti-competitive conduct.
However, the ACM can find an investment firm liable for its portfolio company's conduct based on the organisational, legal and economic links between them. The fact that the ACM fined the investment company individually, rather than jointly with the portfolio company, was no reason for the CBb to decide differently. When faced with an antitrust fine, companies are well-advised to double-check the facts used by the competition authority to reach its conclusion on 'decisive influence'.
On 19 March 2019 the CBb issued two rulings regarding the attribution of fines relating to an alleged cartel on the Dutch market between Dutch, Belgian and German milling companies. The ACM originally fined 15 milling companies for approximately EUR 82 million for a cartel infringement,
In the first case, the CBb ruled that the ACM had failed to sufficiently substantiate its imposition of fines on a limited partnership, established under German law (a ''KG''), as well as on the KG's two managing partners, for an alleged cartel infringement committed by the KG. The ACM found that because of its nature, the KG consisted of its two managing partners, and therefore, the infringement could also be attributed to the two individuals, simply in view of their capacity as managing partner of the infringing entity.
The CBb ruled that the ACM's reasoning was insufficient. In view of personal responsibility when applying punitive sanctions, the ACM cannot take the civil liability regime for managing partners as a starting point. As the two managing partners were not the only natural persons involved, the ACM should have assessed whether these two partners exercised decisive influence over the KG. This question was contested by the managing partners, and this should have given the ACM reason to further assess whether or not the managing partners had in fact exercised decisive influence over the KG. The CBb therefore ordered the ACM to remedy its omission, either by substantiating the imposition of a fine on the general partners or by annulling the fines it imposed on them.
In the second case, the CBb upheld the ACM's decision to impose a fine on an investment firm for a cartel infringement committed by its portfolio company. Having examined the economic, organisational and financial links between the portfolio company and the investment firm, the CBb agreed with the ACM that the investment firm had decisive influence over the portfolio company's conduct.
The investment firm's fine was imposed separately, in addition to the fine already imposed on the portfolio company for the same conduct. The other parent companies involved in the alleged infringement had, however, been fined jointly and severally with their subsidiaries. The CBb ruled that this did not go against the principle of equal treatment, because it had no longer been possible for the ACM to impose a joint fine on the portfolio company and the investment firm. It was only after objections by the other parent companies that the ACM had issued a supplementary statement of objections to the investment firm. As a result, it was no longer possible for the ACM to impose a joint and several fine on the investment firm and its portfolio company.
This article was published in the Competition Law Newsletter of April 2019. Other articles in this newsletter:
European Court of Justice sets aside Portuguese rules time-barring a damages action
Tick-tock: no reset of the appeal clock for amending Commission decision
Don't take the ACM's digital inspection guidelines too literally
Loyalty rebate scheme 'saved' by pharma company's market misconceptions
European Court of Justice issues landmark ruling on parental liability
Competition Disputes
Follow-On Civil Litigation
Merger Control and Joint Ventures
Regulatory Investigations and Compliance
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Simone Evans Senior Professional Support Lawyer Amsterdam
Roos Elemans Associate Amsterdam
Prove it or lose it: court sets aside ACM fines in two separate cases
Short Reads - The Rotterdam District Court recently confirmed the high bar which has been set for the ACM when proving its case: the court annulled the fines imposed by the ACM in two different cases and, significantly, each for the same reason.
Team: Floris ten Have, Simone Evans
Higher fines ahead under Belgium's new competition act
Short Reads - Companies beware: on 3 June 2019, a new competition act entered into force in Belgium. The new act introduces a number of modifications to procedure and sanctions, aimed at improving enforcement of competition laws as well as the functioning of competition authorities.
Peter Wytinck Partner Brussels
No parking! Canon fined EUR 28 million for warehousing transaction structure
Short Reads - The European Commission has landed a third strike against gun-jumping, the prohibition to implement a transaction before notification to and clearance by the Commission.
Team: Floris ten Have, Elina Demertzi, Simone Evans
Abuse of economic dependence and unfair contract terms in B2B relations: ready for 2020?
Short Reads - Belgium recently adopted a new act prohibiting (1) the abuse of economic dependence, (2) the use of unfair contract terms and (3) unfair market practices in B2B relationships.
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Armed Utah teachers practice responding to school shootings
By MORGAN SMITH Associated Press
SPANISH FORK, Utah — Nancy Miramontes had 30 seconds to find the gunman.
The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student's head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the first time she's ever used a gun. One bullet pierced the shooter's forehead.
"Nice work," a police officer told her as they exchanged high-fives in front of cardboard props representing the gunman and student.
Miramontes recently joined 30 other Utah teachers at a series of trainings where police instructed them on how to respond to an active shooter. Teachers went through the shooting drill inside a warehouse set up to look like a school, then moved outside to a shooting range.
Active shooter training for educators is becoming more common nationwide, and Utah is one of several states that generally allow permit holders to carry guns in public schools. Other states, including Florida and Texas, have programs that allow certain teachers to be armed if they are approved under a set of stipulations.
Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said the popularity of concealed carry permits in Utah makes such trainings even more important. About half the teachers brought their own handguns to the shooting range.
"If teachers are going to be bringing firearms into schools, let's make sure they know how to handle them safely," Smith said.
At least 39 states require lockdown, active-shooter or similar safety drills, according to the Education Commission of the States. Other states have less explicit requirements or leave it to districts. Utah requires its elementary schools to conduct at least one safety drill each month, and its secondary schools to have detailed emergency response plans. The firearm training is voluntary, but the Utah County Sheriff's Teachers Academy already has a waiting list for its next four-week program.
Despite increasing prevalence, some school safety experts aren't in favor of firearms training and worry that such lessons could cause undue stress or harm.
"Are police tasking teachers to perform a law enforcement responsibility by arming them to protect others? We have to be cautious of what we ask people to do in these traumatic, stressful situations," said Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm.
Miramontes said her teacher friends in Utah and other states debated about it on Facebook. But after the training, she said she felt empowered.
"I know how to protect myself and my students now; I know what to expect if the worst happens," she said.
At the recent session, officers showed teachers how to disarm a gunman, where to shoot on the body, how to properly aim and unload a firearm. They also went over de-escalation techniques, self-defense and medical responses such as how to pack a wound and tie a tourniquet on a child.
Officers spent months designing the course and local businesses donated money and equipment. Attendees paid $20 to participate.
Between bites of pastries, teachers relayed their fears:
"Will the gunman leave after I shoot them?"
"How do I protect the children when they come?"
The sun stretched over the mountains as teachers put down their coffee and strapped into bulletproof vests, goggles and protective head gear. Above the ringing of gunshots, some teachers discussed summer vacation plans and classroom supply lists.
Sandy Grow, a special needs educator at a Lehi middle school, said the massacres at Parkland and Sandy Hook left her feeling unsafe at work. A gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last year. In 2012, 20 children and six educators were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"The idea of being trapped in a classroom with my students and not being able to protect them bothered me," she said. "I want to defend them and keep them safe, not be a sitting duck."
Mike Ericksen thinks a lot about how to keep students safe at Mountain View High School, where he's the principal and his son is a student. In 2016, before he began working there, five students were stabbed in the boys' locker room.
Reloading his handgun for target practice, Ericksen said the training has left him better prepared to fight back if someone threatens his school.
"I'm more confident in my skills and what to do if something happens," he said. "I'm not as nervous now. I can help."
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'Farm workers can’t live on R162 a day': Grabouw estate faces strike over pay
14 May 2019 - 08:04 By ASHRAF HENDRICKS
A police officer monitors an informal settlement in Grabouw alongside the N2 near Sir Lowry’s Pass after striking farm workers and their supporters blocked the road.
Image: GroundUp/Ashraf Hendricks
Farm workers from Oak Valley Estate and supporters from Grabouw blocked the N2 highway near Sir Lowry’s Pass on Monday. They demanded a wage increase to R250 per day, an end to labour brokering, and the removal of single-sex hostels.
They have been on strike — organised by The Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (Csaawu) — since May 6. There is no agreement in sight.
“Farm workers can’t live on R162 a day,” said Karel Swart of Csaawu. “The money that the workers bring home into the community is not enough for the community to survive with.”
He said that workers wanted the hostels demolished and replaced with family homes. “Oak Valley is a big company and we want them to make land available to build houses and to restore our human dignity.” He also said that labour broking was making “white farm owners rich” but “it keeps wages low”.
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When GroundUp arrived at the scene at about 10am on Monday, the protesters had already dispersed. They were moving through the township towards Ou Kaapse Way near the centre of Grabouw. A trail of rubber bullet casings lay in the street and several public-order police officers were patrolling the outskirts of the township. Saps and traffic vehicles were on the scene.
In a statement, Oak Valley said that it fully complies with the National Minimum Wage Act for both permanent and seasonal workers. According to the statement, the average wage for permanent employees is R273 a day, and R234 per day for seasonal workers. The company also provides free services such as transport to and from work, and rent-free housing on the farm.
Oak Valley said it would not enter into negotiations with Csaawu until the union represented at least 50% of the farm’s workers. Currently it represents about 28% of workers. Oak Valley said that labour brokers were common in an industry where seasonal workers were required.
Oak Valley Estate covers 1,786 hectares and has 233 permanent workers.
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Christopher Rawbone-Viljoen, managing director of Oak Valley Estate, said about 65 out of the company’s 233 permanent workers were on strike. He said Csaawu members “have threatened and intimidated workers, preventing them from coming to work”.
At the entrance to the estate a security guard was stationed, not in uniform. He said that he had to dress casually to get to work safely.
Elaine Magalie, an Oak Valley employee, said workers were earning too little. “We are asking for R250 a day and we are currently getting R162.“ Magalie had been working on the farm for over five years, she said. She has to look after two children and her parents. She said she can’t do this on her current wages. She said she spent R1,000 on transport monthly alone - although Oak Valley says it provides free transport.
This article was first published by GroundUp.
Robert Mugabe's dairy farm trucks, tractors go under hammer
Vehicles and farm equipment belonging to former President Robert Mugabe’s company Gushungo Holdings are set to be auctioned on Saturday.
Durban waste and water strike is finally over, confirms premier
The strike by eThekwini water and sanitation municipal workers is over.
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Your weekly horoscope: May 12 to 18 2019
What do the stars hold in store for you?
Linda Shaw Columnist
20 April – 20 May
Who could fail to notice that inner glow of confidence? You're learning to like yourself more and to understand the true value of intimacy; even more after the love planets move in on Thursday. There are risks, but the potential for reward is equally powerful. Launch new projects at work. Your talents are growing; your efforts are being noticed.
21 May – 20 June
Here's your chance to make a name for yourself if you're keen. Make the most of the energies around you. Announcing that you don't need anyone's help is not just moronic - it's untrue. Besides, you don't want to make promises you can't keep. With that big mouth, you'll be promising the sun, moon and stars. And for that you'll definitely need assistance. Use Saturday's full moon to make the most of what's out there.
21 June – 22 July
Too much responsibility has brought a heaviness to your life. Enough of that. Suddenly you're bursting with a confidence that can literally make dreams come true. The ideas are there. As long as you can resist that age-old compulsion to doubt their source, you'll find the courage to take that leap into the unknown. Saturday's fabulous full moon brings talent and help. And your career planets are providing the rest.
LEO23 July – 22 AugustIf there are documents to sign, do it now. And if you're even vaguely worried about the details, ask for help. This is your week to flourish and prosper. Playing the victim is not allowed. If new offers seem limited, do something to change the energy. Go somewhere new, change your routine. Do something - anything - different.VIRGO23 August – 22 SeptemberThose career moves aren't over yet, so if the yearning to retire to the beach has grabbed you again, put it straight back in its box. New and fascinating directions are coming at you from the oddest sources. Seize them all, and experiment whenever you have time to play. There are forces coming that will demand all your time. There won't be much left for a personal life.LIBRA23 September – 22 OctoberIf you're looking for a job, polish your briefcase, and make sure your name is on all the appropriate lips. Your real interests, meanwhile, have shifted towards the alternative. So even though your romances are on slightly shaky ground, you're ready to take a leap into the unknown. Which is great. No guarantees except that you'll certainly have an adventure. Save your money though. It's coming in dribs and drabs for a while.SCORPIO23 October – 21 NovemberThere's hard work ahead, with the kind of effort that will leave you gasping. You can do one of two things: embark on an immediate and drastic fitness programme, or look out for people to help you. As you know, personal limitations are both inevitable and frustrating. What the planets are asking for is a direction change, not a jibbering idiot. Don't worry about your love life for now.SAGITTARIUS22 November – 21 DecemberDelicious flashes of inspiration are like sparks of genius sneaking through the haze of distractions. And there's no-one to match you at distractions. But for now, not even you can stop the flow of magic. And if you work with it, you may even discover a way to re-invent the wheel. Or something a tad more useful. The love life will improve next week. For now, avoid power struggles.CAPRICORN22 December – 19 JanuaryThe love life is not exactly going according to plan - so much so that a sudden mind-shift might even be necessary to hold off a war. Meanwhile, how about putting down the long-term plan to have a less demanding look at what you already have. Don't hold back. There's a full moon visiting your career on Saturday. Any new ideas can be presented with a flourish. Good news is already on its way.AQUARIUS20 January – 18 FebruaryHow about networking? That's what's needed to jack up your professional life. Everyone can use influential friends sometimes. Take courage and do what you need to. If there are any arguments, let the other guys win. You'll soon find you're making a fuss about nothing. Watch your health. Your energy is temporarily down, so you'll need supplements. Or maybe a massage. Just relax.PISCES19 February – 20 MarchIf relationships are causing problems, starting by deepening your friendships and work from there. One thing: for the time being, fantasy brings nothing but disaster. If you can stick with reality, concentrating on allowing a greater flow of love into your life, you'll be fine until these energies move on. The career is doing fine on its own for now. Even your money dramas are okay. Stop worrying about rubbish.ARIES21 March – 19 AprilPay close attention to everyone you meet this week. Get their cards, write down their names and keep in touch. A pool of talent is growing around you. Slowly you're beginning to like the idea of working as a team, and moving on to bigger projects as a result. Keep cool. The way you handle prosperity is important. Use Saturday's full moon to launch new projects. You'll be helped...
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Backtracking, Austria says it will remodel, not raze, Hitler’s house
Government committee says tearing down home where Nazi leader was born ‘would amount to negating Austria’s Nazi past’
By Agencies 18 October 2016, 6:29 pm 1 Edit
Anti-Nazi protesters gather outside the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria, on April 18, 2015. (AFP/Joe Klamar)
The building where Adolf Hitler was born may be spared demolition, but emerge heavily disguised.
On Monday, Austria’s interior minister, Wolfgang Sobotka, told the daily Die Presse that “the Hitler house will be torn down.”
But on Tuesday, he told reporters that the term “torn down” is debatable but the building, in the western town of Braunau, will be so thoroughly redesigned that it “will not be recognizable.”
The “house,” a large, three-story Renaissance-era structure, contains the apartment where Hitler was born.
Several members of a government-appointed commission on the future of the house said destroying it to end its attraction for admirers of the Nazi dictator would give an impression of trying erase part of Austria’s history.
“The demolition option had been explicitly mentioned in the (government’s) proposal and was not approved by us,” said Clemens Jabloner, the ex-president of Austria’s highest administrative court, in a joint statement with historian Oliver Rathkolb.
Instead, the committee had suggested a “profound architectural redesign.”
“A demolition would amount to negating Austria’s Nazi past,” the pair said.
Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally in Weimar, Germany, October 1930 (public domain)
Responding to the criticism, Sobotka on Tuesday insisted the main goal was to destroy any “resemblance” to the current house, “especially its outer appearance.”
Whether this process would an involve an actual demolition could be discussed later on, he told journalists in Vienna.
A copy of the commission’s report showed the experts had been “against leaving an empty space instead of a building.”
“A complete transformation or removal of the building is in principle suited to erase the place’s ideological connotation and dissolve the emotional ties with Hitler. But… a historical contextualisation remains necessary,” the report read.
Although Hitler only spent the first few weeks of his life at Number 15 Salzburger Vorstadt Street, the address has been a thorn in Austria’s side for decades, drawing Nazi sympathizers from around the world.
Every year on Hitler’s birthday, anti-fascist protesters organize a rally outside the building, next to a memorial stone reading: “For Peace, Freedom and Democracy. Never Again Fascism, Millions of Dead Warn.”
The dilapidated property in the historic town center has been empty since 2011 when the government became embroiled in a dispute with owner and local resident Gerlinde Pommer.
Her family has owned the 800-square-meter (8,600-feet) building for more than a century, except for a brief period during the Nazi regime.
In 1972, the Austrian government signed a lease with Pommer and turned the premises into a centre for people with disabilities.
But the arrangement came to an abrupt end five years ago when Pommer refused to grant permission for much-needed renovation works.
The famously elusive owner also rejected a purchase offer made by the increasingly exasperated interior ministry.
In July, the government approved a legislation amendment to seize the house from Pommer who continues to net 4,800 euros (around $5,300) in rent every month.
The expropriation bill, which includes compensation for Pommer, was to be debated in parliament later Tuesday.
Sobotka earlier said it could enter into force by the end of the year.
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Touring the 2017 Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback Trims
If you’ve been looking for an affordable compact car that offers engaging but fuel-efficient performance, a versatile passenger and cargo area, and lots of modern amenities, the all-new 2017 Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback is certain to excite. While the Cruze Sedan is available in four different trim levels, the Cruze Hatchback is offered in top-of-the-line LT and Premier trim levels, both with an impressive range of technology and premium appointments. Find out more before taking both trims for a tour at Tom Gill Chevrolet.
LT Trim
With a starting MSRP from $21,240, the LT trim rides on stylish, 16-inch alloy wheels and comes standard with a cargo cover and rear spoiler. Like all other Cruze models, this one runs on a turbocharged 1.4L inline-four engine that makes 153 hp and 177 lb-ft of torque, and gets up to an EPA-estimated 40 mpg highway. It also gets premium technologies like a Chevy MyLink touchscreen with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, satellite radio, and HD radio, as well as OnStar telematics with a 4G LTE Wi-Fi connection. You can also opt for the Convenience package that gets you comfort features like a power driver’s seat, heated front seats, keyless entry, and push-button start.
Premier Trim
Move up to the Chevy Cruze Hatchback Premier for $23,945. Like the LT trim, it features seating for up to five, a generous amount of cargo room in back, and a split folding rear seat that gives you access to 47.2 cubic feet of cargo space when you need it. This model gives you a sportier performance thanks to a more rigid rear suspension and 17-inch alloy wheels. It also adds premium features like leather upholstery, ambient cabin lighting, and a heated steering wheel. Exclusive available features on the Premier trim include heated outboard rear seats, a wireless smartphone charging station, and a traditional power outlet inside the cabin. As with the Premier trim, you can also purchase it with a pair of Driver Confidence packages with a range of advanced driver assist safety features.
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Are you ready for an economy hatchback that offers a premium experience across the board? The 2017 Chevy Cruze Hatchback is proof that you can have it all for less. At Tom Gill Chevy, we offer competitive financing on all our models, including both Chevy Cruze Hatchback trims. Come check out both models at your convenience at our dealership, located over the Kentucky border from Cincinnati at 7830 Commerce Dr. in Florence, KY. If we can be of any assistance in the process, don’t hesitate to give us a call. We’re open seven days a week and look forward to serving your auto needs.
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Safety Elite
Toyota SUV Buying Guide at Toyota Chula Vista
Shop New Toyota SUVs
Many people who are looking for a 2017 Toyota Camry for sale because they want a family-friendly vehicle find themselves drawn to the SUVs we have in our new car inventory. Over the years, SUVs have moved out of the automotive shadows and they now stand at the center of the stage when it comes to driver-friendly, family-oriented automobiles.
The 2017 Toyota RAV4 is an SUV that comes in five trims, the LE, XLE, SE, Limited, and Platinum. All of the trims have standard front-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive is available as an option.
Being Toyota dealers, we’re proud to tell you that every new Toyota RAV4 comes with a standard suite of advanced safety features. This suite includes a forward collision intervention system, a lane departure warning, automatic high beams, and adaptive cruise control.
When you visit our Toyota dealership near Lemon Grove, CA, you’ll see that the 2017 Toyota Highlander is available in six trims. Every Toyota Highlander model has the Toyota Safety Sense technology suite, which includes adaptive cruise control, automatic high beams, a lane departure intervention system, and other intelligent safety features.
A three-row SUV, the Toyota Highlander isn’t just designed to keep you and your family safe on the road. The 2017 Toyota Highlander is also made to keep you and your passengers comfortable and entertained. With five USB ports, a 6.1-inch touchscreen, and Bluetooth connectivity, you’ll stay informed and connected in a 2017 Toyota Highlander.
The 2017 Toyota Sequoia is a capable SUV that has seating for up to eight passengers. The Toyota Sequoia has 10 inches of ground clearance, which makes it great for reaching remote outdoor destinations.
The 2017 Toyota Sequoia comes in three trims. Every Toyota Sequoia model is available with either rear- or four-wheel drive. All of the SUV’s trims have a generous amount of standard features you and your passengers will enjoy, including a sunroof, sunshades, a 6.1-inch touchscreen, and an eight-speaker sound system.
Want to learn more about Toyota SUVs? Visit Toyota Chula Vista now.
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Oldest UK Carina E
November 27, 2016 December 18, 2016 admin 2 Comments
Search is on for the oldest British-built Toyota
Competition launched to find the earliest surviving Carina E
In December 1992, history was made when the first Toyota Carina E rolled off the line at Toyota’s newly opened factory at Burnaston, in Derbyshire. Twenty years on, it’s time to celebrate and Toyota is hoping to mark the occasion by tracing the oldest surviving example still in daily use.
Thanks to Toyota’s commitment to quality and reliability, a huge number of the cars are still on the road today. DVLA records show some 17,000 Carina models, built between 1992 and 1997 are still in regular use.
To mark that achievement, Toyota has launched a competition, offering owners and drivers of the UK’s oldest British-built Toyotas a chance to get behind the wheel of the newest – the all-new Auris to be launched in December.
It is seeking the help of enthusiasts across the land to track down those early cars and their owners, using the power of social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
Anyone spotting a K-plate Carina E is asked to let the owner know about the search, perhaps simply by putting a note on the car’s windscreen, and that Toyota would like to get in touch.
If you own such a car, you can easily confirm whether it was British-built, or one of a number that were imported from Japan. The 17-character code on the vehicle’s identification plate will start with an S for Burnaston vehicles, and a J for imported cars. The plate can be found under the bonnet, just below the windscreen wipers.
To let Toyota know about the car, name, address and contact details should be emailed to toyota.contact@tgb.toyota.co.uk. Owners of the oldest examples found will be invited to tell their car’s story and have it photographed, and will have the chance to win use of a new Auris for a week (terms and conditions apply).
Toyota owners and spotters are also invited to post pictures of early Carina E on Facebook (‘Like’ at www. facebook.com/toyotauk) or by posting on Twitter with the hashtag #firstGBtoyota. The vehicle owner’s permission must be obtained before posting.
There’s a serious message behind the mission to find the oldest Carina E. Achieving the highest standards of build and quality are central to Toyota, and there was to be no compromise when the decision was made to begin its European manufacturing operations in the UK. The building of a new assembly plant here was only sanctioned once it could be sure that British parts suppliers and assembly line workers were capable of working within the same margins as their Japanese counterparts.
By 1993, Carina E was in full-scale production at Burnaston, beginning a long-line of saloon and hatchback production that continues today with Avensis and new Auris and Auris Hybrid. Its output makes a significant contribution to the current prosperity of the country’s automotive industry: last year Burnaston produced more than 128,000 vehicles, 80 per cent of which were sent for export to Europe and other world markets.
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2 thoughts on “Oldest UK Carina E”
We have a H Reg carina ll rotting on the drive it’s been there 20 yrs since my father in law passed away its low mileage and needs to go to someone who what to restore it
Please if you know of anyone could you contact me
Correctcashregisters@hotmail.co.uk
Patrick Mallon
I have a Toyota carina e 1997 186000 miles. I have it from New. Just wondering how much its worth roughly. Very good condition. Cheers . Sorry its 2 litre diesel
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Getting there, around and away
Photo: Downtown Mandalay.
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Boat & ferry
Flights from Mandalay serve Yangon, Heho (for Inle Lake), Nyaung Oo-Bagan, Myitkyina and Tachileik, among others. As is often the case, KBZ are usually the priciest and Yadanarbon and Golden Myanmar usually the cheapest, with Asian Wings, Myanma National Air and Yangon Airways somewhere in between. By the time you read this, they’ll have probably set up two or three new airlines anyway. Most companies run daily flights to most popular destinations. Some sample fares: Yangon for $124-$142, Heho $73-$92, Nyaung Oo/Bagan $89, Tachileik $143, Myitkyina $110-$129, Putao from $137.
As of 2016 the following international flights also operate out of Mandalay:
Bangkok: Bangkok Airways, Air Asia and Myanmar Airways International. The latter arrives at Don Muang and while Bangkok Airways run Chiang Mai-Mandalay flights, there are no Mandalay to Chiang Mai ones.
Kunming: China Eastern Airways and Myanmar Airways International.
Singapore: Silk Air
Seoul: Myanmar Airways International
Hong Kong: HK Express
Burmese schedules and prices are liable to last-minute changes so please check carefully before making any plans. The above is intended as an approximate guide only.
Mandalay airport (MYL) lies some 35 kilometres south of the city and its international code. It’s one of Burma’s smarter airports and has a taxi desk, exchange facilities (08:00-17:00) and cafes. Taxis should be around 12,000 kyat to downtown while Shwe Nan San run an airport minibus from outside the main doors for $4 or 5,000 kyat per person.
Mandalay’s huge railway station is on 79th Street at the junction with 30th Street, with a rear slip road leading down onto 79th and 80th. From a distance, the recently repainted facade looks impressive; inside however, even by Burmese station standards, it’s a dump. Furthermore, though staff did try their best, there is little information in English. Its acres of grimy, decaying concrete are not a place to linger so here’s the most accurate information and prices we could come up with for destinations liable to be of interest to foreign visitors.
The five lines out of Mandalay are as follows:
Northeast line departs 04:00
Pyin Oo Lwin: 1st class/2nd class: 1,200/550; arrives 08:00.
Kyaukme: 3,300/1,450; arrives 13:20.
Hsipaw: 2,950/1,700; arrives 15:00.
Lashio: 5,550/2,400; arrives 19:35.
West line departs 05:35
Monywa: 2nd class only, 700 kyat; arrives 11:35.
Southwest departs 07:20, 21:00
Bagan: 1st 1,800 kyat; arrives 18:45, 04:50
North line departs 04:30, 12:00, 17:55, 19:15, 20:00
Myitkyina: 1st 22,500; arrives 22:00, 06:30, 10:45, 13:30, 21:05
Yangon departs 06:00, 15:00, 17:00
Thazi: 2,000/1,000 kyat; arrives 08:51, 17:46, 19:46
Naypyidaw: 3,700/2,000 kyat; arrives 11:51, 20:33, 22:48
Bago: 9,300/4,600 kyat; arrives 18:56, 03:13, 05:46
Yangon: 9,300/4,600; arrrives 21:00, 05:00, 07:45
For Kalaw and Shwe Nyaung (Inle lake) change at Thazi.
Buses depart Mandalay for most corners of the country. To the west are destinations in Sagaing and Chin States; north are Bhamo and Myitkyina in Kachin State; and east includes all stops en route to Taunggyi and Lashio in southern and northern Shan State respectively, including the popular tourist destinations of Pyin Oo Lwin, Kyaukme, Hsipaw, Kalaw and Inle Lake. Heading south, the closest stops are Bagan, Thazi and Meiktila on the way to Naypyidaw, Pyay, Taungoo and eventually Yangon. Fans of long-distance bus travel can knock yourselves out with direct tickets to Hpa-an, Mawlamyine or Myawaddy.
Mandalay has four main bus stations. Highway bus terminal (on the continuation of 62th Street, south of the centre) serves the southern and central destinations to Yangon as well as southeast via Kalaw and Inle to Taunggyi in southern Shan State. Pyi Gyi Myat Shin, on the corner of 60th and 37th Streets, is for destinations in northern Shan State, Pyin Oo Lwin, Hsipaw, Lashio and ultimately Muse on the Chinese border. Smaller Thiri Mandala station on 23rd Street serves Monywa, Shwebo and Pakokku.
As usual there are myriad different bus companies and options include shared taxis, minibuses, old fan buses and VIP air-con sleepers. Hotel and guesthouses receptions are probably your best option for obtaining information and tickets and for the small commission they charge it’s not usually worth messing around yourself. Some pricier hotels may add on more substantial service charges so it can be worth checking; plenty of independent travel agents dotted around can help too.
Shared taxi and most minibus options are more expensive than regular buses but they do include pick-up and drop-off at your hotel.
Sample shared taxi fares are: Monywa, 7,000 or 8,000 for front seat; Pyin Oo Lwin, 6,000 to 7,000 kyat; Kyaukme, Hsipaw and Lashio 18,000-20,000 kyat.
The following are samples for buses:
Northeast (The China Road)
Pyin Oo Lwin: 3,000 kyat, around 2 hours, regular departures
Kyaukme: 5,000 kyat, 4.30 hours, early morning and a 14:00 departure
Hsipaw: 5,000 kyat, 6 hours, early morning and a 14:00 departure
Lashio: 6,000-6,500 kyat, 10 hours, early morning and night buses
Bagan: 9,000 kyat, 5 hours, regular departures
Naypyidaw: 5,300 kyat, 4 hours, regular departures
Yangon: fan 10,700-12,000 kyat, air-con 18,500-20,500 kyat, VIP 35,000 kyat, 9-11 hours, a few early morning, mostly night buses.
Kalaw: 7,500 kyat, 7-8 hours, early morning and night buses
Nyaung Shwe: 7,500, 9-10 hours early morning and night buses
Taunggyi: 7,500 kyat, 9-10 hours early morning and night buses
Monywa: 5,000 kyat, 3 hours, regular departures
Some buses are fan and some air-con, but be careful as some of the companies we checked sold seats on either at more or less the same price. Buses depart regularly throughout the day for closer towns—hourly for Monywa for example—but for longer routes buses leave either early mornings or sleeper versions early evenings. We also saw Hsipaw buses, both fan and air-con, departing at 14:00 as well. Shared taxis and to some extent minibuses leave whenever they are full.
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From: Bagan Dawei Hsipaw Inle Lake Kalaw Mandalay Mawlamyine Monywa Myeik Pathein Tachileik Yangon
To: Bagan Dawei Hsipaw Inle Lake Kalaw Mandalay Mawlamyine Monywa Myeik Pathein Tachileik Yangon
From Mandalay you can in theory go either direction up the Ayeyarwady, with the Bagan journey being the most frequently taken by foreign visitors. At the time of writing there were no boats up the Chindwin from here as the road to Monywa is in good condition. For destinations north on the Chindwin you’ll have to go to Monywa first.
For points north to Katha, Bhamo and Myitkyina boat travel is dependent upon both water levels and the political situation. Road, boat, and even rail transport to Kachin State varies according to the current security situation, which can change at very short notice, particularly north of Bhamo. If the government says you can’t go then that’s it—you can’t go. During rainy season slow government boats depart most days of the week taking around two days to reach Bhamo. There are also occasional faster, but much more expensive, boats. Check on the ground close to the time of your proposed visit.
It makes much more sense to do the northbound trip by flight or rail and the return trip—downstream—by boat.
While not set in stone, southbound transport is a lot more reliable, though in this case determining factors are water levels and tourist levels. As long as water levels are okay and sufficient demand is there, boats will run. However an unfortunate contradiction is that the best water levels are during the rainy season when there’s the least number of passengers around. The early part of the high season in November to December is okay, but come late January and February, water levels can get very low. Boats will continue to be scheduled, since it’s busy, but navigating myriad sandbanks with heavily laden cargo boats trying to do the same in the opposite direction can be painful and boats can (frequently) get stuck. An eight-hour rainy season voyage can easily become a 12-hour dry season one.
During our low season visit, slow boats were departing on Wednesdays and Sundays from Mandalay with foreigners charged $18-20 for a 14-15 hour trip. A private fast service (8-12 hours) was running on Thursdays for $40 to $44 per person, depending upon where you buy your ticket. Daily services don’t usually start until late October. Boats leave at 07:00 from Strand Road but you can’t just turn up; you will need to buy a ticket beforehand, as well as check times. All hotel and guesthouses will have current information and ticket sales.
See our Bagan transport section for details on boats to there.
Public boats to Mingun leave from the Strand jetty opposite 26th Street and cost 5,000 per person. Scheduled departure is 09:00 with a 12:40 return and private hire at any time of day is $25. The boat journey is around 45 minutes upstream, and 30 minutes downstream.
Myanmar River Cruises: T: (01) 294 669, (01) 901 0757, (099) 7296 2028; sales@myanmarrivercruises.com; www.myanmarrivercruises.com.
Much of downtown Mandalay is walkable, with the city’s numerous tea shops and cafes making fun refreshment stops. Cycling works well too and many of the town centre’s streets off the main axis are relatively quiet. Most guesthouses and hotels should be able to help you sort out a pair of wheels or at least point you in the right direction. A couple of places we visited had complimentary bike use. Otherwise the standard day rate is 1,500 kyat.
We’re less sure about motorbike hire and though we are personally experienced Southeast Asian scooter riders, we’d think twice about taking on some of the town’s busier streets. If you’re heading to out of town sites such as Amarapura or Sagaing you are obliged to use the busier routes. Outside of downtown’s grid system, streets can get pretty confusing, too. Motorbikes are not cheap to hire: We were quoted 8,000/14,000 kyat a day for manual/automatic. Standard hire is 07:00 to 19:00, though you can of course hire it for several days. They’re mainly Honda Dreams and Waves or newer Chinese automatic scooters.
Compare bike hire with the price of splitting a taxi and driver with a couple of other people and bear in mind Mandalay's limited medical facilities. If you do want to hire, we’d recommend Mr Jerry & Miss Yi Yi Motorbike and Bicycle Hire on 83rd Street, between 25th and 26th Streets, opposite Nylon Ice Cream. They're open daily 07:00-19:00 and have bicycles too, just as their name suggests.
You’ll still see plenty of rickshaws, though they are slow and no cheaper than the moto-taxis. The latter are also common and relatively cheap with a ride in the central area coming to 1,000 to 2,000 kyat or so. It seems anyone with a moto spying a tourist on foot will present themselves as a taxi and some don’t have a clue where they’re going. More popular accommodation spots will have a couple of resident drivers outside and will also be able to conjure up an English-speaking taxi driver, too. Taxi rates vary widely, depending on how busy they are, what commission the receptionist feels like adding, or how broke the driver is. The following is a rough guide (as of 2016) for fares from downtown to:
Highway bus terminal: 6,000-7,000 kyat
Mandalay Hill summit: 10,000 return
Airport: 12,000 kyat
U Bein return: 18,000 kyat
Sagaing return: 18,000 to 20,000
Day tour around town: 35,000 to 40,000 kyat, plus a bit more if you’re including sunset
Sagaing and U Bein return: 35,000 kyat
Pyin Oo Lwin: One-way $80
Where are you planning on heading to after Mandalay? Here are some spots commonly visited from here, or click here to see a full destination list for Burma_myanmar.
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Second shock cripples city; patients worst hit
City stinks as garbage collection system collapses
Manhole mishaps: MC finds 3 employees guilty
NGOs pray against axing city’s green heritage
Woman saves landlady from robbers
Man ends life as wife reports abuse
Jail inmate dies in hospital
Harpal Singh, a jail inmate, died at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital after a brief illness today. His family members have alleged irresponsible attitude on part of the jail authorities as the reason.
The outsiders Commuters risk their lives as they hang behind a truck in Amritsar. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
Rs 2.5 lakh for a teacher’s post; one held for fraud
The City police has arrested a conman for allegedly duping many unemployed youths on the pretext of providing them jobs in the education department. The accused wielded influence claiming he had close relations with the ruling party ministers besides the Director General of School Education (DGSE) Kahn Singh Pannu and Secretary Education Husn Lal.
Local firm gets job to beautify Durgiana Temple complex
The Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) has engaged Chaman Lal and Sons for the construction of a multi-storey commercial complex in Durgiana Temple complex.
Pingalwara farm bags award for highest sugarcane yield
An organic sugarcane farm managed by Pingalwara Charitable Society has won the prize for record production of sugarcane given by the Sugarcane Development Office.
Admn challans eight establishments
Teams of the district administration today issued challans to hotels, eating joints and a shopping mall for not displaying warning against smoking at public places.
No-smoking board pasted outside the Town Hall in Amritsar. A file photo
Smokers, vendors make light of norms
With no fear of getting challaned, cigarette vendors and smokers make light of anti-smoking norms as soon as the sun sets and the health department teams are off for the day.
NGO condemns chopping of trees
The activists of NGO Mission Aagaaz and several residents strongly condemned the chopping off century-old trees by the Durgiana Mandir committee.
It’s show time for Pingalwara inmates
The Pingalwara Charitable Society today organised an exhibition of handicrafts and artefacts made by the inmates. The exhibition was organised to observe the 20th death anniversary of its founder Bhagat Puran Singh.
Inmates of the Pingalwara Charitable Society spin cotton on charkhas. Photos: Sameer Sehgal
Absorb us in govt schools: Aided teachers
Teachers associated with government-aided schools today urged the government to absorb them in government-run educational institutions which face staff crunch.
Teachers hold a meeting in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
DPS students plant saplings to mark van mahotsav
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To celebrate the van mahotsav, students along with teachers of Delhi Public School planted saplings in the school campus.
Conference on HIV begins at GMC
The Amritsar Obstetrics and Gynecological Society inaugurated the two-day North Zone HIV Conference at Government Medical College (GMC) here today. The stress was on the prevalence of HIV among pregnant women and their handling at the time of delivery and treatment.
A speaker during the North Zone HIV conference, organised at GMC in Amritsar on Saturday. Photo: sameer sehgal
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Residents approached the police when she did not open her kiosk. Residents found her lying in a pool of blood inside her hut and informed the police control room after which senior police officials, including ACP Gurnam Singh reached the spot.
SHO Sadar police station Vavinder Kumar Mahajan said during investigations it was found that two cylinders and a colour television set were missing from the hut and thus it seemed to the handiwork of the robbers. “Sonu may have noticed the robbers while stealing their belongings and must have opposed them. The accused attacked her on her head with bricks after which she died on the spot,” said Mahajan.
Her brother Ashok Kumar was arrested by the police a few days ago on charges of loafing at Loharaka Road, said Mahajan. He said the body was sent for the post- mortem examination which would be handed over to her sister Neetu later.
A case under Section 460 IPC has been registered against unidentified robbers, the SHO said.
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As an alternate measure, the AMC also plans to buy its new fleet of garbage lifting machinery, besides inviting bids on a short-term basis from private parties to hire trolleys to lift garbage.
It’s been over a week when the company had stopped its garbage lifting operation. Even as the company officials said this development was an outcome of non-payment of their dues by the AMC, yet the latter countered it by stating that the public utility service could not be stalled under any circumstances and that the company was liable to bear the penalty.
The AMC officials maintained that the company is paid a consolidated sum after every quarter and the crisis occurred only during the last quarter period when the state government could not release the funds.
It has been learnt that the Centre has sanctioned the funds to the state head but the same have not been transferred to the AMC account so far. Outstanding bills of the company add up to Rs 1.25 crore.
MC Commissioner Dharampal Gupta said the situation became grim as the employees of the company went on a strike demanding minimum wages. “Even if there was delay in payments, it was not proper for the company to withdraw its operations abruptly,” he said.
There were reports that the drivers and other helping staff of the Mumbai-based company were on a protest for having been denied wages according to the collector rates, bonus and proper uniforms and remained off work. It was only after the intervention of the AMC officials that the issues between staff and management were resolved.
AMC health officer Dr Yogesh Arora said the move of the company to put residents at the receiving end could not be forgiven. The manager of Antony waste Handling Company Anil Chandala said, “We were forced to stop garbage lifting operation because our dues to the tune of Rs 1.6 crore were not paid. We have already brought it to the notice of the management at our headquarters in Delhi,” he said.
Kin accuse jail authorities of delay in hospitalisation
Harpal Singh was lodged in Amritsar Central jail eight months ago on charges of theft and was awarded two-year imprisonment.
The doctors diagnosed him with Hepatitis-B. On the request of his family members, he was shifted to GND Hospital a week ago, where he breathed his last today.
His brother Raja alleged that it happened due to negligence on part of the jail authorities which did not refer Harpal to the hospital in time. “When I went to meet him in jail, he was suffering from fever. I kept asking the jail authorities to get him shifted to the hospital, but they did not take me seriously. It was only when his condition deteriorated that the jail authorities got him admitted to the hospital, but he could not survive,” he alleged.
No one listened: victim’s brother
When I went to meet him in jail, he was suffering from fever. I kept asking the jail authorities to get him shifted to the hospital, but they did not take me seriously. It was only when his condition deteriorated that the jail authorities got him admitted to the hospital, but he could not survive, says victim’s brother Raja.
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He was exposed when several victims met Pannu and apprised him about it. He contacted the local police and asked them to register a case.
The accused has been identified as Satnam Singh Sekhwan, a resident of Chheharta. A case has been registered against him on charges of fraud at Chheharta police station.
The accused took between Rs 50,000 and 1 lakh from the victims. He assured that he would provide them government jobs as teachers and against other vacant posts. However, but neither provided jobs nor returned the money.
Bhajan Singh, a resident of Baba Bakala, said Satnam Singh took Rs 2.5 lakh from him on the pretext of providing jobs to his son-in-law Varun, granddaughter, Jaskirat Kaur and grandson Dharamveer Singh.
“He told us that he belonged to the SAD and claimed he had very close relations with the Cabinet ministers Bikram Singh Majithia, Sikander Singh Malooka and Bibi Jagir Kaur besides other leaders of the ruling party as well as senior officials of the education department. He demanded Rs 1 lakh per job but kept saying that the appointment letters would be issued soon," he said. Another victim, Prem Singh of Azad Nagar, said he left his job as a driver after the accused assured him and his wife of providing jobs in the education department.
Kahn Singh Pannu said the victims approached me with the complaint against Sekhwan. "I called the police and I appeal to the people to approach if anybody cheats them in the name of jobs in the education department. Such people should be brought to book," he said.
Satpal Joshi, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, said a case of fraud has been registered. The victims alleged that earlier, the police was not taking any action against the accused saying that the matter had been “sorted out” as he had returned the money to the victims.
This commercial complex will be built at the cost of Rs 3.5 crore. As many as 53 shops will be demolished in the first phase to widen the galliara of the complex.
Superintending Engineer, Bharat Bhushan Sharma, said, “The firm was chosen after financial bids were opened yesterday and the firm had bid the lowest. It is estimated that the proposed commercial complex would be completed within oner year,” he claimed. “Those displaced in the process have been compensated as per the Land Acquisition Act norms. We would offer as many shops to the owners or the tenants on reserve price,” he said.
Sharma said Rs 28 crore had been sanctioned as compensation to acquire the land required for the beautification project and the remaining Rs 22 crore would be spent to create infrastructure for tourists, devotees and pilgrims.
The AIT would raise a four-storey parking lot to accommodate 400 cars and over 150 two-wheelers. An auditorium, open-air theatre, joda ghar and information centre would also be constructed. He said 72 per cent of the land would be an open area, which would include the greenbelt.
Later, the AIT may also offer battery-operated cars to the temple committee to ferry handicapped and aged visitors to the temple.
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A file photo of Pingalwara Society president Inderjit Kaur and farm manager Rajbir Singh at the organic farm in Amritsar.
The farm recorded a yield of 398 quintals of sugarcane per acre using the technique of sowing sugarcane at a spacing of 11 feet.
The farm manager Rajbir Singh said, “Using the traditional method of sowing sugarcane the farmers are able to get a yield only up to 265 quintals."
He said the produce at the farm was weighed in the presence of officials of the Sugarcane Development Office.
The farm has also got a certificate along with a cash prize of Rs 7,500.
Rajbir Singh said difference of 11 feet is kept between two lanes of sugarcane. He said the society's farm grows all the crops organically.
“The entire crop produced by the society is consumed by the inmates of the Pingalwara ashram. The surplus is sent to the community kitchen at Golden Temple. We have never sold a single grain of any crop," said Rajbir.
He said the need of the hour is to grow crops organically in Punjab. "The system would help farmers cut down on their input expenditure. Besides we have proved that production does not decrease instead it increases,” said Rajbir Singh. The farmers can always visit the society's farm to seek guidance.
The Sugarcane Development Office has decided to give a subsidy of Rs 3,600 to the farmers wanting to follow the Pingalwara model. A jubilant Rajbir Singh said, “Next we are working on an organic model to grow Poplar trees used as timber. We have planted only 80 saplings over an acre of land as against the agriculture department's advisory of 210 plants.”
The remaining space is being used for other crops, he said.
Poplar next: farm manager
Next we are working on an organic model to grow Poplar trees used as timber. We have planted only 80 saplings over an acre of land as against the agriculture department's advisory of 210 plants, says farm manager Rajbir Singh.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Supreet Singh Gulati said inspections were conducted in view of the proposal to declare holy city as a smoke-free city by August 15.
A press release issued by the administration said hotels, including Crystal, Khyber, Ista, besides Alpha One Mall, Café Coffee Day, Bharava Da Dhaba, Friends Dhaba and Angreji Dhaba were penalised for not displaying warning boards.
Gulati said a team of PGI experts would visit the city on August 6 to check its readiness in getting smoke-free status. He said the team would stay in the city for four days and is expected to inspect around 250 establishments.
Gulati hoped that the residents of the city would cooperate with the administration in making the city a smoke free city.
Vendors know that the health department teams carry out the challan drive only during the office hours.
The same cigarette vendors, who do not dare to provide a match box to customers for fear of a health department team waiting in plain clothes, happily start lighting the cigarette for their customers after the sunset.
The department challans the vendor as well as the smoker in case he is seen smoking at a cigarette shops.
“Most of the customers are in the habit of lighting the cigarette at the shop itself. However, because of the fear of punishment, we have stopped lending the lighter or match stick,” said a vendor.
City residents said the department should devise a method to check blatant smoking at public places during the evenings at least during the initial days of the campaign to instill a habit among smokers.
Kalpana Sharma, a student, said, “We have seen that when it starts getting dark, people smoke at public places without any fear. It seems that people are more afraid of the punishment instead of the harmful effects on their bodies.”
Civil Surgeon Dr Hardeep Singh Ghai said, “We will construct special teams to keep a vigil during the evening hours.”
He said the general public could report about violations on phone numbers given at warning posters displayed at various places.
He said the team from the PGI would come on Monday to check the readiness of the city in obtaining the smoke-free status.
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NGO activists has filed an application with the district courts under Section 295-A.
During a meeting, Mission Aagaaz activists discussed how the four pipal and banyan trees were axed without considering any alternative mechanism, which could have saved these trees.
“We swung into action as soon as we received a call from a woman resident of the area and sought judicial, administrative and political help, but in vain. It seemed to be a part of major conspiracy,” said Gurbhej Singh, general secretary of the NGO.
The Amritsar Improvement Trust had decided to get these trees transplanted and the Punjab Government had given it a go-ahead on July 19.
Members of NGOs claimed that office-bearers of the Durgiana Temple committee abused them when they went to save these trees. “They had even deputed some women who attacked the people with lathis and used inappropriate language against us”, alleged Deepak Babbar, an NGO activist.
Harish Taneja, spokesperson of the Durgiana Temple committee, maintained that proposal of transplantation was scrapped keeping in mind its low success rate. “It was necessary to chop off these trees, as a new commercial complex has been proposed to be built over there. And as per HC directions, the displaced shopkeepers would have to be rehabilitated. We have planted equal number of trees in the Gol Bagh area. Moreover, a wide green belt with over 40 trees is part of the Durgiana Mandir Beautification project”, he said.
A differently abled man draws a sketch of society’s founder Bhagat Puran Singh. Photos: Sameer Sehgal
Residents take a look at handicrafts made by inmates. Photos: Sameer Sehgal
Society’s president Dr Inderjit Kaur said inmates are taught various skills during their stay so that after they go home, they are able to make a livelihood for themselves.
The society also runs a vocational training centre where the inmates are taught various skills like chair canning, weaving, candle making, sewing, embroidery etc, she said.
The society also pays special attention to the individual requirements of the mentally-retarded children. A painting competition for these children was also organised today.
The inmates exhibited their skills in front of dignitaries and general public. Artificial limbs made by experts associated with the society with the help of inmates. Inmates are also imparted special training in the field.
Dr Inderjit Kaur said competitions were organised in candle making, weaving, hand fan crafting, embroidery and painting.
Members of the Punjab State Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union, Amritsar, viewed that the government has already been paying 95 per cent grant in aid to aided schoolteachers, but has not been filling up vacant posts of aided teachers since 1987.
“Around 50 per cent of the aided school staff has attained superannuation till now. But the government has not made any fresh recruitment against these posts. It will have been a wise step to get us engaged with the government schools on the same pattern that has been adopted in neighbouring states like Haryana, Himachal and Rajasthan,” said President Raj Kumar Mishra.
Union secretary Jagjit Singh Gujral said if the government accepts our demand, it would serve dual purpose. “First, the shortage of teachers in government schools would be over, and secondly, there would be no burden on the state exchequer as we are already being paid through the grant-in-aid scheme. So, our services can be utilised in more efficient ways,” he said.
The union thanked the government for reviving the pension scheme which was discontinued since 2003.
Principal Sangeeta Singh said saplings of ashoka, bael, banana, neem, bamboo, gulmohar, bottle-brush trees and sacred shrubs like tulsi were planted.
“The idea was to inculcate a sense of affection and appreciation for plants among students,” she said.
A storytelling session on trees, their historical, medicinal and other importance was held on the occasion. The students were given certificates of appreciation by the school for their commendable efforts.
In top league
Students of Bachelor of Journalism & Mass Communication (2nd semester) of BBK DAV College bagged top positions in Guru Nanak Dev University.
Khushboo Aggarwal secured the first position and Jyoti Sharma stood third. Also Megha Mehra bagged eighth position.
A workshop on occupational exposure protection was held in which the health employees from all over North India participated.
Dr Amrit Pal Kaur, secretary of the society, said 0.9 per cent of women in Punjab are infected with HIV. She said the state is on the verge of entering high prevalence area from low prevalence area. An area with a total infectious person count of above one per cent is termed as high prevalence area.
She said health employees are at a constant risk of getting infected if proper precautions are not taken. Dr Kaur said of the 34.2 million people infected with HIV in the world, around 3.4 million are Indians.
She said the district has highest number of injectable drug users.
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Pocket money app RoosterMoney launches prepaid card for kids
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News / Wed 8 May 2019
Pocket money app RoosterMoney is launching the Rooster Card, as it continues to expand its offering and build on its mission to take children from their first steps in understanding the value of money to their first bank account.
The new Visa prepaid card for kids, being launched in partnership with Cornercard UK, comes with new to market dynamic CVV technology, making it a more secure card for online transactions.
This new offering allows parents to graduate their kids from a virtual ‘tracker’,which offers the fundamentals for building smart money habits, to a prepaid card, ready to take the next step towards independent money management in the real world.
RoosterMoney launched in 2016 with a mission to transform the way the world talks about money with their children. Since then, it has grown the number of currencies being used on the platform to over 50 and tripled its userbase in the last 18 months to over 600,000 users. The Rooster Card will be a premium feature within the app, and is being made available to families for testing, before a full release in June.
Key features include: parent Account with sort code & account number – parents can separate their kids’
pocket money, and family and friends can pay into the account, dynamic CVV, real-time spending notifications and no overdraft allowance.
Will Carmichael, RoosterMoney CEO, says: “We’re delighted to be able to offer families our unique Rooster Card, which is a natural progression for the kids who have learnt the basics with our tracking tool. A bridge between the tracker and a bank account, we are helping parents to empower their kids to make considered spending choices on their own, both online and in store.
“It was important to us that we built a secure product, utilising cutting-edge security technology,
and I’m proud to say we now have a leading offer for families with kids of any age. Kids can start as young as four using the app as a star or reward chart, before graduating to a pocket money tracker and then, ultimately, the Rooster Card whenever the parents and kids are ready.”
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NEWFANE, N.Y., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Newfane, N.Y., driver was charged with texting while driving in a July 16 accident which killed a bicyclist, police said.
Alicia Westgate, 25, struck and killed Richard Webb, 68, an avid bicyclist, as each was traveling in the same direction on a road in the Niagara County, N.Y., town of Burt, the Buffalo, N.Y., News reported Wednesday.
Driver inattention was blamed for the crash, police deputies said. Westgate was charged Tuesday with reckless operation, use of a portable device for texting and failure to use due care, and will answer charges in Newfane Town Court on Aug. 14.
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For second year, Pope warns oil execs that 'radical energy transition' is needed to save the planet
Pope Francis is warning oil executives that a transition to clean, low-carbon power sources is needed to save a rapidly warming planet.
For second year, Pope warns oil execs that 'radical energy transition' is needed to save the planet Pope Francis is warning oil executives that a transition to clean, low-carbon power sources is needed to save a rapidly warming planet. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/14/energy-transition-needed-save-planet-pope-warns-oil-executives/1453995001/
Associated Press Published 8:37 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 1:55 p.m. ET June 16, 2019
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis warned oil executives on Friday that a “radical energy transition” to clean, low-carbon power sources is needed to stave off global warming as he pressed his environmental message in a closed-door Vatican summit.
Francis also told industry leaders from the likes of Britain’s BP and Italy’s Eni that carbon pricing and science-based transparent reporting of carbon risks were essential to ensure the poorest don’t suffer any more from the effects of climate change.
Francis told the executives that a well-managed transition away from polluting fuels can “generate new jobs, reduce inequality and improve the quality of life for those affected by climate change.”
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The meeting marked the second year that Francis has invited oil and financial sector executives to the Vatican to impress upon them his concern that preserving God's creation is one of the fundamental challenges facing humankind today. Francis has dedicated a major teaching document to the environment and is expected to press his case at a Vatican meeting of Amazon bishops later this year.
Activists hold up signs outside the Vatican as Pope Francis meets with oil executives, Friday, June 14, 2019. (Photo: Claudio Peri, AP)
Outside the summit, around half-a-dozen protesters held up signs urging the oil executives to listen to the pope.
The meeting was held under unusual secrecy even by Vatican standards, with the program and guest list initially unpublished. A few executives confirmed their presence ahead of time, including the chief executives of BP and Eni, Bob Dudley and Claudio De Scalzi.
On the BP blog, Dudley wrote this week that the meeting was coming at an urgent time, with BP’s own latest survey showing carbon emissions grew by 2% last year, at a time when they have to dramatically decrease to meet standards set by the Paris climate accord.
Francis told the executives that carbon pricing is “essential” so that the poorest don’t pay the debt of the wealthy in future generations.
He also called for transparency in reporting climate risks and recalled that in his first meeting with the executives last year, he voiced concern that our thirst for energy must not destroy civilization.
“Today a radical energy transition is needed to save our common home,” he said.
Opponents of offshore drilling rally and march in Sacramento
Protesters against oil drilling off the California Coast march from the state Capitol to a hearing by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Sacramento, Calif. It's the only public hearing in California on a Trump administration plan to propose six sales of drilling rights off the state's coast. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
Bill Pinkham joined other protestors against oil drilling off the California Coast. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
State Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, holds up some of the more than 1,400 pages of public comment against a plan to open oil drilling off the California he will deliver at a hearing by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
A protester dressed like a polar bear joins other protesters against oil drilling off the California Coast. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
Protestors against oil drilling off the California Coast march from the state Capitol to a hearing by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
A protester against oil drilling off the California Coast joins a rally at the state Capitol. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
Bethany Webb, of Huntington Beach, joins other protesters at a rally against oil drilling off the California Coast. RICH PEDRONCELLI, AP
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Old Meldrum is located in Aberdeenshire. It is a medieval burgh from the 17th century. Hosiery and distilling were the main industries in the 18th century. It was a railhead for agricultural goods from the area. Today it has range of industries including distilling, agricultural (Sellars) and off-shore (James Fisher) industries and it is a local service centre.
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My formative years were spent becoming an artist in Europe during the 1960’s. This was a time of extreme social unrest in the countries I resided in and in America. I spent twelve years in West Berlin where I had met my mentor, the painter Hermann Bachmann and his daughter Suzanne and I fell in love.
Because of the charged political atmosphere and the fact that Bachmann had just destroyed most of his artwork, I was very much on my own as to what and how I would make art. I became immersed in revolution at the same time I was falling in love with painting and I had to figure out what to do.
IN 1973 I graduated from and was hired by the H.f.b.K Berlin to teach life drawing and stayed on in Berlin until 1976. There were several shows of my work and many commissions. And I encountered a lot of great artists.
What evolved in my work was a fusion of socio- environmental themes with the continuous presence of a heroic femininity constantly threatened by a violent chauvinistic world. I was very lucky and somehow intuitively knew how to paint but was also keen on invention because I had originally wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. So I proceeded to invent paintings and new ways to make them in which there is an obvious infatuation with art but also a passionate concern for the human condition.
In 1976 I returned to home and had a family. I continued to paint and show. Then I spent ten years building and flying camera planes.
I spend my time now between NYC and the Dominican Republic painting, writing, building and flying drones.
I have also written and soon hope to publish my bizarre “Brief Memoirs”.
To see complete works go to: www.theartofbroderickprice.com
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Find out what changes could be on their way to Williams Road
Improvements for pedestrian safety, road safety traffic flow and aesthetics are on their way to Williams road in Salinas.
Find out what changes could be on their way to Williams Road Improvements for pedestrian safety, road safety traffic flow and aesthetics are on their way to Williams road in Salinas. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2018/07/20/find-out-what-changes-could-their-way-salinas-williams-road/804160002/
Cristian Ponce, Salinas Californian Published 1:22 p.m. PT July 20, 2018
Unlimited resident parking in front of and to the side of the Sal-Mex Bakery on Williams Road makes it difficult for customers to stop and shop.(Photo: Jay Dunn/The Salinas Californian)Buy Photo
The city announced they are moving forward with the Williams Road Improvements Project, in coordination with the Alisal Vibrancy plan on the conceptual design.
According to the press release from the City of Salinas, the conceptual design for the improvements could include the following:
Buffered bike lanes
ADA ramp enhancements
Improvements at crosswalks that include installation of bulb-outs
High visibility striping
Median island
Pedestrian and street lighting
Road reconstruction
Street landscape
Bus shelters
Parking issues
The city will be holding a public meeting for community input on the conceptual design from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on July 24 at the Firehouse Recreation Center at 1330 E. Alisal St.
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Medical Marijuana Workers Get Union Backing
By Valerie Tejeda 03/26/12
Medical marijuana workers in California join “Cannabis and Hemp Workers” union to prevent a pot shop ban.
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Joining the ranks of grocery workers, healthcare providers and pharmacists, marijuana dispensary workers in Los Angeles have enlisted the help of a labor union to help ward off a ban on pot shops. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW ) have formed a unit called the “Cannabis and Hemp Workers” division, and 10 medical marijuana dispensaries in the L.A. area have joined. The union president has vowed to use the "full force" of its 35,000 members to keep these shops open. "We want consumers to understand they can go to legitimate operations and safely have access to what they need," said Rick Icaza, head of the LA County Federation of Labor. "We’re going to negotiate good health and welfare and hopefully a pension, and make it a profession rather than thinking people are getting crack from some crack house." The proposed measure would inhibit businesses from selling marijuana, however seriously ill patients and their caregivers would be allowed to cultivate it. The UFCW has already unionized employees of dispensaries in other parts of California as well as in Colorado.
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Nokia announces Nokia 106 and 107 phones
By: Rahul Gupta, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi Last updated : August 16, 2018 7:40 pm
Nokia new range of low cost handsets comes as Nokia 107 Dual Sim and Nokia 106 Single Sim options.
Nokia has unveiled two pocket friendly mobile phones, named as Nokia 106 and Nokia 107.
The Nokia 106 and 107 are based on the Series 30 operating system. Nokia 107 sports a 1.8-inch display 128x160 pixels resolution with a pixel density of 114 ppi and has a 1020 mAh battery that can deliver up to 12.7 hours of talk time and around 835 hours of standby time, as per Nokia. It supports dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) with dual SIM standby fort connectivity with support for micro SIMs. Besides, it has additional features like MP3 player, 16 GB of expandable memory, and 3.5mm audio jack connectivity.
The Nokia 106 also features 1.8-inch 128x160 pixels resolution display with a pixel density of 114 ppi. The Nokia 106 comes with an 800mAh battery that can deliver up to around 10 hours of talk time and 840 hours of standby time as per Nokia's claim. The device supports single SIM and uses Micro-SIM. Along with that for multimedia the Nokia 106 gets stereo FM Radio with 3.5mm audio jack connectivity.
Both the phones will go on sale in the coming months in India, however the final date of launch has not yet been revealed. Nokia 106 is expected to cost approximately Rs 1500 while the Nokia 107 may be priced around Rs 2000.
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Warren Buffett's Top 25 Stocks for 2015
These are Warren Buffett's Top 25 stocks for 2015.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Warren Buffett is considered the most respected and successful investor. Often called "The Oracle of Omaha" for his impressive investing prowess, he is among the world's wealthiest people.
Buffett studied under the legendary Benjamin Graham at Columbia University who had a major impact on Buffett's life and investment strategies.
Watch the video below for some interesting facts about self-made billionaire, Warren Buffett:
Buffett is chairman of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc ( BRK.A), which he built from a textile company into a major corporation with a market cap of more than $350 billion. Under Buffett's leadership, Berkshire shares averaged a 19.7% compounded annual gain in per share book value from 1965-2013.
He follows a value investing strategy that is an adaptation of Graham's approach: Discipline, patience, and value consistently outperforms the market. His moves are followed by investors worldwide. Buffett seeks to acquire great companies trading at a discount to their intrinsic value, and to hold onto them for a long time. He will only invest in businesses that he understands, and always insists on a margin of safety.
Regarding the types of businesses Berkshire likes to purchase, Buffett has said, "We want businesses to be ones that we can understand, with favorable long-term prospects, operated by honest and competent people, and available at a very attractive price."
What follows are Buffett's top 25 holdings as of December 31, 2014...
25. Liberty Global PLC (LBTYA)
Shares Held by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway: 10,816,000 shares
Value of Holdings: $543 million
Portfolio Weighting as of 12/31/2014: 0.5%
Liberty Global is an international telecommunications and television company formed by the merger of the international branch of Liberty Media and UGC in 2005.
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TheStreet Ratings team rates LIBERTY GLOBAL PLC as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate LIBERTY GLOBAL PLC (LBTYA) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income and generally higher debt management risk."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: LBTYA Ratings Report
24. Costco Wholesale (COST)
Shares Held by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway: 4,333,000 shares
Portfolio Weighting as of 12/31/2014: 0.56%
Costco Wholesale together with its subsidiaries operates membership warehouses.
The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.
TheStreet Ratings team rates COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of A. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP (COST) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: COST Ratings Report
23. Viacom (VIAB - Get Report)
Viacom is an American mass media company that specializes in cinema and cable television. It is the sixth largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue.
TheStreet Ratings team rates VIACOM INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate VIACOM INC (VIAB) a BUY. This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: VIAB Ratings Report
22. Visa (V - Get Report)
Visa is an American financial services company that had, at the time, the largest IPO in U.S. history on March 18, 2008. Visa sold 406 million shares at $44 a share to raise $17.9 billion.
TheStreet Ratings team rates VISA INC as a Buy with a ratings score of A. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate VISA INC (V) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and expanding profit margins. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: V Ratings Report
21. M&T Bank (MTB - Get Report)
M&T Bank is a U.S. bank holding company founded in 1856. As of 2014, M&T Bank held $134.4 billion in assets, which made it the 17th largest commercial bank holding company in the U.S.
TheStreet Ratings team rates M & T BANK CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate M & T BANK CORP (MTB) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, expanding profit margins, increase in stock price during the past year and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: MTB Ratings Report
20. Precision Castparts Corp. (PCP)
Precision Castparts Corp. manufactures and sells metal components and products worldwide.
It operates in three segments: Investment Cast Products, Forged Products, and Airframe Products.
TheStreet Ratings team rates PRECISION CASTPARTS CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate PRECISION CASTPARTS CORP (PCP) a BUY. This is driven by a number of strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: PCP Ratings Report
19. Verizon Communications (VZ - Get Report)
Verizon Communications is the largest U.S. wireless communications service provider as of September 2014.
TheStreet Ratings team rates VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC (VZ) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, generally higher debt management risk and weak operating cash flow."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: VZ Ratings Report
18. Suncor Energy (SU - Get Report)
Suncor Energy together with its subsidiaries operates as an integrated energy company.
The company primarily focuses on developing petroleum resource basins in Canada's Athabasca oil sands; explores, acquires, develops, produces, and markets crude oil and natural gas in Canada and internationally; transports and refines crude oil; markets petroleum and petrochemical products primarily in Canada; and markets third-party petroleum products. It operates in Oil Sands; Exploration and Production; Refining and Marketing; and Corporate, Energy Trading, and Eliminations segments.
TheStreet Ratings team rates SUNCOR ENERGY INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate SUNCOR ENERGY INC (SU) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and disappointing return on equity."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: SU Ratings Report
17. VeriSign (VRSN - Get Report)
VeriSign is an Internet and communications company that operates network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers.
TheStreet Ratings team rates VERISIGN INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate VERISIGN INC (VRSN) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: VRSN Ratings Report
16. Bank of New York Mellon (BK - Get Report)
Bank of New York Mellon provides various financial products and services in the U.S. and internationally.
Its Investment Management segment provides institutional, intermediary, retirement and retail investment management, distribution, and related services.
TheStreet Ratings team rates BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP (BK) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: BK Ratings Report
15. Charter Communications (CHTR - Get Report)
Value of Holdings: $1.033 billion
Charter Communications is the fourth-largest cable television operator in the U.S. The company provided cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 27.6 million customers in 29 states in 2013.
TheStreet Ratings team rates CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC (CHTR) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, generally higher debt management risk and disappointing return on equity."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: CHTR Ratings Report
14. USG Corp. (USG)
Portfolio Weighting as of 12/31/2014: 1%
USG Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates as a manufacturer and distributor of building materials worldwide.
It operates in three segments: North American Gypsum, Worldwide Ceilings, and Building Products Distribution.
TheStreet Ratings team rates USG CORP as a Hold with a ratings score of C-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate USG CORP (USG) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, deteriorating net income and poor profit margins."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: USG Ratings Report
13. General Motors (GM - Get Report)
General Motors (GM) designs, manufactures, and markets cars, crossovers, trucks, and automobile parts worldwide.
The company markets its vehicles primarily under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Opel, Holden, and Vauxhall brand names, as well as under the Alpheon, Jiefang, Baojun, and Wuling brand names.
TheStreet Ratings team rates GENERAL MOTORS CO as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate GENERAL MOTORS CO (GM) a BUY. This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, increase in stock price during the past year and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: GM Ratings Report
12. Deere & Co. (DE - Get Report)
Deere & Co., branded as John Deere, manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, along with diesel engines, drive trains, and lawn care equipment.
TheStreet Ratings team rates DEERE & CO as a Buy with a ratings score of B+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate DEERE & CO (DE) a BUY. This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations, notable return on equity and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: DE Ratings Report
11. Moody's Corp. (MCO - Get Report)
Moody's Corp. provides credit ratings and credit, capital markets, and economic related research, data, and analytical tools worldwide.
TheStreet Ratings team rates MOODY'S CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of B-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate MOODY'S CORP (MCO) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: MCO Ratings Report
10. Goldman Sachs (GS - Get Report)
Goldman Sachs provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.
TheStreet Ratings team rates GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (GS) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: GS Ratings Report
9. DIRECTV ( DTV - Get Report)
DIRECTV provides digital television entertainment services in the U.S. and Latin America.
The company acquires, promotes, sells, and distributes digital entertainment programming primarily through satellite to residential and commercial subscribers.
TheStreet Ratings team rates DIRECTV as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate DIRECTV (DTV) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income and weak operating cash flow."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: DTV Ratings Report
8. DaVita HealthCare Partners (DVA - Get Report)
DaVita HealthCare Partners provides kidney dialysis services for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure or end stage renal disease.
It operates kidney dialysis centers and provides related lab services primarily in outpatient dialysis centers and in contracted hospitals.
TheStreet Ratings team rates DAVITA HEALTHCARE PARTNERS as a Buy with a ratings score of B+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate DAVITA HEALTHCARE PARTNERS (DVA) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: DVA Ratings Report
7. U.S. Bancorp (USB - Get Report)
Value of Holdings: $3.6 billion
U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, provides a range of financial services in the U.S.
Its services include lending and depository, cash management, capital market, and trust and investment management services, as well as merchant and ATM processing, mortgage banking, and brokerage services.
TheStreet Ratings team rates U S BANCORP as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate U S BANCORP (USB) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins, increase in stock price during the past year, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: USB Ratings Report
6. Procter & Gamble (PG - Get Report)
Procter & Gamble together with its subsidiaries manufactures and sells branded consumer packaged goods.
The company operates through five segments: Beauty, Grooming, Health Care, Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Care and Family Care.
TheStreet Ratings team rates PROCTER & GAMBLE CO as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate PROCTER & GAMBLE CO (PG) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: PG Ratings Report
5. Walmart (WMT - Get Report)
Walmart operates retail stores in various formats worldwide.
The company operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam's Club.
TheStreet Ratings team rates WAL-MART STORES INC as a Buy with a ratings score of A-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate WAL-MART STORES INC (WMT) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year, reasonable valuation levels, increase in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: WMT Ratings Report
4. IBM (IBM - Get Report)
Value of Holdings: $12.349 billion
Portfolio Weighting as of 12/31/2014: 11.3%
IBM provides information technology products and services worldwide.
The company's Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, including outsourcing, process, integrated technology, cloud, and technology support.
TheStreet Ratings team rates INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (IBM) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, deteriorating net income and generally higher debt management risk."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: IBM Ratings Report
3. American Express (AXP - Get Report)
Shares Held by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway: 151,611,000 shares
American Express together with its subsidiaries provides charge and credit payment card products and travel-related services to consumers and businesses worldwide.
The company operates through four segments: U.S. Card Services, International Card Services, Global Commercial Services, and Global Network & Merchant Services.
TheStreet Ratings team rates AMERICAN EXPRESS CO as a Buy with a ratings score of B+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP) a BUY. This is driven by a number of strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, increase in net income, growth in earnings per share and reasonable valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: AXP Ratings Report
2. The Coca-Cola Company (KO - Get Report)
The Coca-Cola Company manufactures and distributes Coke, Diet Coke, and other soft drinks worldwide.
The company primarily offers nonalcoholic beverages, including sparkling beverages and still beverages.
TheStreet Ratings team rates COCA-COLA CO as a Buy with a ratings score of B-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate COCA-COLA CO (KO) a BUY. This is driven by a number of strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, reasonable valuation levels, increase in stock price during the past year and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: KO Ratings Report
1. Wells Fargo (WFC - Get Report)
Wells Fargo provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services to individuals, businesses, and institutions.
The company's Community Banking segment offers checking and market rate accounts, savings and time deposits, individual retirement accounts, and remittances; and lines of credit, auto floor plan lines, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education and residential mortgage loans, and credit and debit cards.
TheStreet Ratings team rates WELLS FARGO & CO as a Buy with a ratings score of A. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate WELLS FARGO & CO (WFC) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, expanding profit margins and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: WFC Ratings Report
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Mom giving away dresses for Algonac homecoming
Mother of four Nicole Bender raised funds and donations for Algonac High School students
Mom giving away dresses for Algonac homecoming Mother of four Nicole Bender raised funds and donations for Algonac High School students Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/1UTBxWD
Syeda Ferguson, Times Herald Published 5:14 p.m. ET Sept. 15, 2015 | Updated 3:51 p.m. ET Sept. 16, 2015
A blue ribbon is seen a homecoming dress. An open house with more than 80 homecoming dresses and accessories available for area teens will be held at Church of Christ September 18 from 5-9 p.m. in Algonac.(Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH / TIMES HERALD)Buy Photo
Teenagers at Algonac High School will have a fairy godmother for homecoming dance.
Nicole Bender, of Cottrellville Township, has been collecting and accepting donations of formal dresses and matching shoes for students in need who plan to attend their school’s Sept. 26 homecoming dance.
On Friday, Bender will be giving away more than 80 dresses in sizes 0 to 22 with shoes for many of them. She also will have some jewelry, perfumes and lip gloss for students on a first-come, first-served basis.
The giveaway is 5-9 p.m. at Algonac Church of Christ, 1601 St. Clair River Drive, Algonac.
A mother of four young children, Bender doesn’t have any students attending high school. She has been covering most of the costs of the giveaway herself — including the $600 dry cleaning bill.
“I just wanted to make sure they have everything, that’s why I’m doing this,” Bender said. “Growing up, I had nothing. I know what it’s like to struggle.”
Students who arrive at the church on Friday will get help from Bender and her volunteers to pick out a dress and shoes. On the day of the dance, the students are invited back to the church to have their hair and makeup done for free by the same group.
Algonac’s Water Lily Florist also is offering to make free corsages and boutonnieres for the students. They’re asked to call ahead at (810) 794-7673.
Pink heels are displayed on a table. An open house with more than 80 homecoming dresses and accessories available for area teens will be held at Church of Christ September 18 from 5-9 p.m. in Algonac. (Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH / TIMES HERALD)
Karen Blair, a counselor at Algonac High School, said Bender’s project meets a need among students there.
The high school last year discontinued a program that ran a boutique out of the building. It carried formal wear as well as more practical, everyday clothes and coats. Those items have since been donated to the local Goodwill.
“I’m sure it would help tremendously. It would make them feel special for homecoming. If they didn’t have the service they probably wouldn’t go. This way they can feel included,” Blair said.
“Any time anyone wants to donate anything to our students, we welcome that and we’ll make sure the kids who need them get them.”
Homecoming accessories are displayed on a table. An open house with more than 80 homecoming dresses and accessories available for area teens will be held at Church of Christ September 18 from 5-9 p.m. in Algonac. (Photo: JEFFREY M. SMITH / TIMES HERALD)
Homecoming Giveaway
•What: Free homecoming dresses, shoes, boutonnieres, corsages, hair and makeup for students at Algonac High School.
•When: 5-9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18.
•Where: Algonac Church of Christ, 1601 St. Clair River Drive, Algonac
•For more information, contact Nicole Bender at (810) 420-2352
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What Does It Take to Get a Gun In Canada?
American gun control’s roots are in racism. Specifically, a post-Civil War push to deny freed slaves their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. It spread, virus-like, to northern cities with “urban issues” (i.e. large African-American populations). It went federal because it could. In contrast, Canada’s gun control legislation started on the federal level . . .
The federal Parliament instituted a system of gun control in the North-West Territories in 1885 to hinder the Red River Rebellion for Metis rights. Permission in writing from the territorial government was needed to possess any firearm (other than a smooth-bore shotgun), and also ammunition. Possession of a firearm or ammunition without the necessary permit was an offence, and could lead to the forfeiture of the firearm and ammunition. These gun control provisions applied to all of what is now Alberta, Saskatchewan, parts of Manitoba, the current Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut . . .
Legislation in 1934 required the registration of handguns with records identifying the owner, the owner’s address and the firearm. Registration certificates were issued and records kept by the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) or by other police forces designated by provincial attorneys general.
Wikipedia’s summary of gun politics in Canada doesn’t tell the whole story. Suffice it to say, as always, gun control is about control more than it’s about guns. The video above outlines the legacy of Canada’s shameful history of civilian disarmament. There but for the grace of God and the determination of gun rights-protecting Americans goes the US. Shudder. [h/t SS]
LJM says:
It’s amazing that with such a strong outdoorsman history such as Canada is so anti gun, but then again they do have greater European roots than us.
mk10108 says:
They’re subjects, not citizens.
int19h says:
Your knowledge is about 60 years out of date. Canadian citizens are indeed citizens, not subjects (and same goes for UK, and all other countries under the same crown).
Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
I take it you didn’t watch the video. No government that subjects it’s citizens to that kind of bureaucratic entrapment can fairly call their subjects citizens. Same goes for America to a slightly lesser extent.
Fler says:
Sorry, friend; when the Queen can supersede your government, you’re a subject.
The Queen cannot supersede the Canadian government. She can try in theory, but in practice everyone knows that would just make Canada a republic overnight.
Gun ownership and use for outdoorsy stuff is heavily regulated (compared to most US States) but still quite possible.
Armed self-defense, on the other hand, is non-existent, legally speaking.
Yup. This is what kept one of the more than 90,000 guns in the Moncton area (Regional population of about 150,000) from being used on that scum bag the other week. (I have a FOIA released copy of the registry as of 2007 so that is where the #s come from)
It is utterly illegal to use almost any level of force (Gun or otherwise) and particularly when it is not in the defence of YOUR life. You will be arrested and processed in Canada. It totally turns your world upside down for potentially years. So people are struck by fear from laws.
The law of self-defence in Canada was a total mess wen last I looked at in (around 2001) – even the judges said so, some in their holdings.
But that aside, the storage requirements for firearams, especially of the Restricted variety, are such that any DGU is ipso facto a violation of those storage laws.
Well, it is pretty close to illegal.
We can store ammo pretty near anywhere we want that is “safe” so for a house with no small children, it would not be illegal to have a loaded magazine for your glock in your night stand and your safe is but feet from that and your trigger lock is set to the unlock combo and the safe uses a finger print. Technically, it would be all within the law but VERY easy for you to react, all things considered up here in Canada.
keep in mind that in reality, Bill C-68 was never meant for real safety. There are all manner of loopholes in it along with all the insanity like not technically being able to get gas on the way to the range or back to your house.
The Queen, or her representatives in Canada (Governor General & Lieutenant Governors General–EQUAL, under the Canadian constitution) have minimal and rarely-used reserve powers. The former GG harboured the delusion that she, not Elizabeth II, was the Head of State–she got sorted out, and we have a new GG. Much unlike your Presidential system, where the Prez can basically override the Constitution and legislature in certain circumstances. I think it’s silly to have the Head of State live overseas, but the basic system is sound. And, yes, we are ‘citizens.’ not ‘subjects.’ I really don’t think it’s worth arguing semantics. because socialist countries referred to people as ‘citizens.’
Before 1977, Canada’s Federal gun laws were actually more lax than LBJ’s Gun Control Act: no background checks, and machine guns legal for sale to civilians. Today, the laws are very similar to New York State, or Illinois. Compared to the U.S., one oddity is that guns are commonly sold via mail order. Provinces like Alberta (the Canadian equivalent of a Red State) basically refuse to enforce the Firearms Act, and there is nothing the Federal Government can do about it. Despite the Federal nature of firearms and other criminal laws, Canadian Provinces have far greater powers than U.S. or especially Australian States, and have told the Feds to FOAD on various issues. And, as for armed self-defense, the Canadian courts have recognized the constitutional right to even shoot COPS in self-defense (that being, a no-knock raid):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Parasiris
Rich Grise says:
“Canadian Provinces have far greater powers than U.S. or especially Australian States, and have told the Feds to FOAD on various issues.”
Don’t Comply!
Nullify!
+1 The Queen of England is still their” Monarch”.
Of course it not an “active” roll.
https://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Canada/TheQueensroleinCanada.aspx
According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they’re not even a real country anyway. 😉
The monarch of Canada is the Queen of Canada. The fact that she also happens to be a Queen of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand etc is inconsequential. All those crowns are technically separate, with their own titles, coats of arms, royal prerogatives etc.
Paul T. McCain says:
I just nodded off.
How much does the USA spend on BS pomp and circumstance to fluff up Obama’s ego? Billions when you include the USSS and all the planes and choppers? Canada gets the taxpayers of a WHOLE DIFFERENT COUNTRY to fund its head of state. How is that not brilliant?
I’ll take QE II any day over that – she’s even a real sportswoman and a hunter. Canada’s gun laws are rotten because liberals, and liberals disguised as Torys had a hammerlock on government for 40 years post-WW II, and even with the rise of some better Torys, the population has been brainwashed by academia and the media to a degree rarely seen outside the confines of Manhattan and the Bay Area.
AMOK! says:
QE2 is also a licensed mechanic–really. I don’t like the idea of our Head of State living abroad, and I’d rather have an elected-in-Canada Head of State, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Canadian writer Mark Steyn has a good take on the Monarchy vs the U.S. Presidency:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335141/royal-presidency-mark-steyn
And kudos to Prince Charles for comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler.
BradN says:
I love my Canadian brothers and sisters but DAMN I’m glad I’m an American. That’s just ridiculous.
It is way scary up here. Technically, it is illegal to stop at the gas station if you have guns in your vehicle. Or a better rundown, if you go to the range (Or go hunting), you cannot ever stop for an errand as you are now no longer taking the most expedient and direct route to and from the place of use of your firearms.
An utterly unenforceable law but the law none the less.
Christopher Henry says:
Not true. Any non-restricted firearm has no such issue. Only restricted firearms (AR-15 style & all handguns, plus various others determined by “scariness”) have rules stating you must go straight to and from your registered range or a range you have been invited to as guest. Even then stopping for gas would not be forbidden. Stopping at your buddies place for a drink or visit would be illegal but not getting gas!!
Well, the smart thing is to err on the side of caution with the police.
There was an RCMP officer caught on video making it up as he went along a number of months back. He was adamant that the LAR-15 mag made the rifle prohibited and he seized a bunch guys rifles. This happened out in the woods in BC. It is up on YouTube and Rod Giltaca has a link to it in his collection of videos. Really frustrating.
But ya, you are right on the Res. vs. non. I forgot about that one detail… SEE!!! It is nuts man!!! 🙁 Too much to remember and WE are not the criminals…
Canada can be a nice place to visit, but I’m very glad I don’t have to live there.
M J J says:
Wow. Just…Wow.
Informative video. That is horrible up there.
Full Cleveland says:
Half a bottle of Canadian Club and a pair of nylons.
Say the secret word and the duck will give you one hundred dollars.
[Gun control] spread, virus-like, to northern cities with “urban issues” (i.e. large African-American populations).
New York’s Sullivan Law, the granddaddy of all citizen disarmament, was enacted because of the fear of White people, i.e. the newly arrived Italian immigrants, who threatened the power of Irish-American gangsters and ward-heelers.
O’Malley, Malloy, McCarthy et al are carrying on a long tradition, and for the same reason.
Excedrine says:
Don’t forget the laws passed against open-carry of long-guns in California to specifically target the Black Panther Party (not to be confused with the modern neo-liberal NBPP).
Mark N. says:
California’s gun laws long preceded the loaded carry ban of 1968, dating back to the turn of the century, where the intent was to disarm the Mexicans and the Chinese.
Mike L says:
Not much different in NJ
I should move to canada! It seems like gun heaven compared to Jersey!
Pascal says:
I find the parallels between the two countries interesting.
1) Bad guy shoots somebody, knee jerk reaction and calls for more gun control by people who nothing about existing laws
2) The police get an extra special carve out although as the speaker says, have been involved in crimes themselves, the bad guys break laws regardless of the laws
3) Just as many register guns as those registered. Same goes for Belgium and I bet other countries too. When any tax is too high, people find a way around the tax either via underground economies or black markets. The government should lower the tax to get more to comply but they are too stupid to understand.
Finally I am going to borrow his example about how they do not paint all police departments as bad because of some bad apples, and gun owners should be treated the same.
Also, have visited Canada many times, love the sites, love food, love the beer, I have a good time with my Canadian friends, but still feel better once I am back home.
love food, love the beer
Canadian people are really nice, but aside from Quebec province, Canadian food is insipid and their beer can best be described as swill.
The Canuck says:
Please point out your home state so we can make fun of it, it’s food, and it’s drink.
My “home state” is NYC, where I was born and raised and which has the best food in the known universe.
I don’t live there now for a lot of reasons, but I know a few things about food, which is more than I can say about most of Canada.
Really, how can you eat that sh1t?
lolinski says:
NYC=good food?
Maybe the restaurants or old school pizza shops, but all the new fast food crap isn’t good.
I personally don’t care that much, I like pretty much everything (except tripe). My favorite is cevapi and burek though.
Why is American beer like having s*x in a canoe?
Because it’s f*cking close to water.
Jason Lynch says:
I’ve had very good beer in the US (good food too), but it really pays to have local friends or a helpful bartender point you in the right direction.
Lots of excellent small-scale stuff that doesn’t travel far because the locals sensibly drink it all – which means, sadly, some excellent brews I’ve discovered over there aren’t available in the next county let alone another country.
If you want beer that doesn’t taste like swill learn to make your own. Not only will it be the best beer you’ve ever tasted but it will also be dirt cheap (if you don’t count your labor).
What “sh1t” are you talking about? There are only about six “Canadian” foods that actually originate from here.
WRH says:
Hop City Barking Squirrel is very good and is brewed in my home province of Ontario. The same for Waterloo Dark. Moosehead is nice. Molson Canadian is pretty bad though.
There is no distinct character in our food and that is all I can say.
cmeat says:
the food in canadia. poutine is good. how bad could fries, gravy and cheese curds be? other than that wouldn’t there be just about every tasty game animal? there for sure is more walleye and lake perch than anywhere else. you simply cannot beat that. lake trout? northern pike? yum. better than ‘hudson river trout’.
beer in canadia? we always grab whatever triple- x is duty free when we cross in. they have more than thirty breweries. nothing wrong with the stuff cooked up at unibroue. unless of course you find a dead mouse in your elsinore bottle.
my dad went fishin’ up there once and never came back. they say he saw a sign as he was crossing into windsor that read ‘drink canada dry’. i’m sure he gave it a valiant effort.
c, eh? d, eh? n, eh? f’n eh!
LordGopu says:
Yeah some things are better here than in certain US states. Generally it’s not that bad at least not compared to Europe/Australia.
Can get short barreled shotguns and rifles easily compared to you guys. Plus we can get Chinese guns like norincos. Other that that I can’t think of anything we have better.
Cheap SVTs and SKS’, also the cheap Norinco ammo helps. I am not in Canada but I can import from the same countries.
You can buy via mail order.
Vendetta says:
But Russians SKSs for $150 and SVT40s for $200… Im so torn…
ColdNorth says:
I’m not saying it’s great up here, but it has gone from bad to slightly better. In an odd sort of way, we ended up being better than several of the most restrictive US states (no 50 cal ban, for example)- but that’s mainly because all our bad laws were made in the 90s, and then didn’t get updated. I suppose laziness is a virtue sometimes.
(Also, it’s important to remember that there are two tiers in the Commonwealth. You have really restrictive nations like the UK and Australia, and then you have comparatively more relaxed ones like Canada and New Zealand).
The latest wave of shootings in Canada hasn’t produced the drive towards increased gun control that was feared, and the government is drafting legislation to prevent further idiotic prohib designations. I don’t think we’ll ever be quite as good as, say, Arizona, but at least we’re not as bad as, say, the UK or Australia. If things go well, we may end up back to the pre-90s situation, or something like it.
Of course, we do get surplus Chinese ammunition and firearms (SKS for $179!) so there is one small advantage. The rest of it….not so much.
I’ll also add that there are some states down there even worse than we are. Nobody in Canada considers a bolt action .22 with 10+ rounds to be an “assault rifle”.
Bret says:
I envy you for the norinco imports and sks’s, just paid 480 for my Russian SKS. Plus you guys have some beautiful land.
In Canada the Tavor isn’t even on the “Restricted” list, meaning it can be shipped to your door by Canada Post. : ))
And then you can load it with a 5 round mag :((
In CT, you can’t buy one at all.
L.A.R. 15 pistol magazines work in the Tavor, which legally allows ten rounds. Under Canadian law, the limit depends on what it was designed for, not what it is used in. A pistol magazine in a rifle is fine.
Paladin says:
You can also use magazines designed for the .50 Beowulf to get a capacity of 15-17rds of .223, since the restriction applies to the calibre the magazine is designed for.
Once again I’m glad to be an American. Not so happy about living in Illinois. Happy Fathers Day guys.
Stinkeye says:
It’s a good thing Canada has such stringent laws, otherwise some nutjob with a rifle could just roam around a sleepy little hamlet like Moncton, shooting police at will.
Too soon?
I am sorry for those RCMP officers, those killed in Mayerthorpe, and other police who died in the line of duty. These were good people, and died trying to protect others. But there is definitely a double standard, when it comes to CIVILIANS murdered by police. Google Robert Dziekanski, Greg Matters, or other cases, and shake your head at how Crown Prosecutors, coroners, and judges throw cases of police-caused homicides. And be amazed at the kid glove treatment given to Matt de Grood, a police officer’s son, whose father knew he was going off the rails but did nothing to stop him from slaying five people with a kitchen knife.
It is for sure a double standard here in Canada 🙁
I wish that it was legal to defend life with whatever force you happen to expend in the heat of the moment but it is not. THAT is the greatest travesty in this nation. Only the police are allowed to make such decisions with little to no ramifications.
Hudson says:
That guy’s shirt is the ULTIMATE in urban camo – so ugly you absolutely have to look away. Must work like a charm.
ccw says:
And here I thought central new york was bad.
It is.
In Canada, it’s illegal to pack a modern handgun to protect yourself from a grizzly attack when fishing. So, you occasionally hear about a fisherman being used as a food source for a grizzly. Lovely. (Explains the bear scat smelling like bear spray and filled with tiny bells)
So, some Canadians have started carrying obsolete caliber large-bore antique handguns (which aren’t restricted) as a bear gun.
Not true. Above a certain point going north you are allowed to pack and carry handguns for defensive purposes. Below that line you can carry any non restricted firearm for defense when hunting or fishing. I can even have a KelTec KSG fully loaded with 14 rounds in my car all day long everyday. All it needs is a trigger lock and I am good to go. (Any other non restricted firearm is the same) I would not do so and don’t see a point to doing it but I could without repercussion. We are not a disarmed population but firearm owners are a small voting block in this country. Some of the past knee jerk reactions have been recently corrected by our current federal government. We will never be the USA when it comes to firearm freedoms but we will always have more freedoms than many US states and we will never be California, NJ or NY!!!
Travel in a vehicle with a loaded firearm (non-restricted OR restricted) is illegal.
Magazines / Mag tubes in a shot gun are now considered a loaded firearm, even if a round is not in the chamber.
This counts for off road vehicles as well while out in the back country.
Just an FYI – I’ve discussed this with many fish & wildlife officers (as it relates to bear defence let’s say) – walking with a loaded gun in the bush, no problems…in a vehicle – well, you could end up in some VERY hot water doing so.
You are correct. My mistake for the bad advice. We can carry loaded in the bush but the firearm must be unloaded and locked when transporting. http://www.rcmp.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/PDF/storage-entreposage.pdf .
You need to get a permit. The form is here:
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/form-formulaire/pdfs/679-eng.pdf
D.G. Cornelius says:
In Britain, during Middle Ages, if, in a subject house (yes, being a monarchy, they are called “subjects”), was found a bow with/without arrows, the subject faced prosecution either for illegal hunting (all hunting was illegal, since all land belong to the King), either for being a “terrorist”. Penalty was death.
Great Britain, Australia, Canada…Is anyone seeing any pattern there?
DGC,
I think you’re more than a little confused – you’d be liable for prosecution and a fine in the Middle Ages if you *didn’t* have a bow, arrows, and practice regularly. One King even tried banning the new-fangled sports of cricket and football because they were felt to be distracting people from archery practice.
It wasn’t until 1863 that we got around to repealing the law that nominally required every Briton between 14 and 60 to practice with the bow for not less than two hours every week, which had been in force since the 1300s. (Supervision to be done by the clergy, which is why archery practice often coincided with church).
The 1515 statute reads:-
“Whether the Kinges subjectes, not lame nor having no lawfull impediment, and beinge within the age of XI yeares, excepte Spiritual men, Justices etc. and Barons of the Exchequer, use shoting on longe bowes, and have bowe continually in his house, to use himself and that fathers and governours of chyldren teache them to shote, and that bowes and arrowes be bought for chyldren under XVII and above VII yere, by him that has such a chylde in his house, and the Maister maye stoppe it againe of his wages, and after that age he to provide them himselfe: and who that is founde in defaute, in not having bowes and arrowes by the space of a moneth, to forfayte xiid.
And that buttes be made, in everie citie, towne and place accordinge to the law of auncient time used, and the inhabitantes and dwellers in everye of them to exercise themselfe with longe bowes in shotinge at the same, and elles wher on holy daies and other times conveniente.”
I agree some things seem unreasonable when it comes to firearms here in Canada. Worse part is criminals don’t care what the law says and crazy people are never thinking about consequences. The mandatory sentencing the video mentions is so the judges cannot “go soft” on their sentencing as they were doing for ages. It was a revolving door system until the laws were changed to take judicial discretion away. As a firearms owner I can say I have no issue with the steps needed to get a firearm license in Canada. We have a very robust market for firearms here and a lot of options. Also want ammo? We have more then we need and have no issue going down and buying a 5k box of .22lr for about 6 cents a round. Sure we cant open or conceal carry but I have never felt the need to and I have lived in some pretty dangerous areas. We definitely have way more options and freedoms than many states. The video makes it sounds like you could get denied buying a restricted firearm but that is not true. If it is for sale you can buy it. If it is restricted then you just need to ask for the paperwork not permission. If it is not restricted (way more options than people think) then there is zero tracking and no registration at all.
We need to clarify a few points about firearm legislation here in Canada, a country I was born in, live in, and love being a part of.
First off – the video is an excellent portrayal of what it takes to acquire a firearm in Canada. All & all, our system is not THAT bad – but many of the nearly 2 million gun owners feel it goes TOO FAR – which it does on some points.
As it relates to personal Self Defense; a topic which seems to be taboo amongst most Canadians (most who don’t know the laws on self defence & citizen arrest have been bred to believe that we are helpless victims in waiting which is simply put, not true).
Recently, within the last couple years a legal case set a new precedent for self defence. Although we don’t have CCW law – or Doctrine law – if we find ourselves in a scenario against an armed intruder let’s say; it is legal for us Citizens to use lethal force to defend ourselves and our families.
Although, the main wording is a little unclear & subject to interpretation, let’s summarize by saying this; as long as you use lethal force as a last resort – you are ok if you protect yourself in your home by whatever means are required.
You don’t fumble through the dark & blast off at the first shadow of course (but that’s just plain dumb from a firearm safety perspective) – but if someone breaks in with a gun, and they don’t flee when they find out YOU have a bigger gun – and they get shot – this would be justifiable self defence.
Granted, it would also require a lengthy court battle because most of the crown prosecutors (our version of the DA’s office) would want to lay charges; but there is a precedent for use of a firearm to protect your home & your family – IF the situation warrants; contrary to what many ‘think’ – we are not as bad off as many would say. Google Ian Thompson for the case I am referring to if you’re interested.
I’m not a lawyer – but I do know the laws as written on this subject because the first step to protect your family is knowledge.
Even though our laws are TOO strict – I have to admit that it offers some peace of mind knowing that the shooter next to me on the line at the range has had the same background checks I have had, and (generally speaking) probably isn’t a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
Chris I don’t think you are correct about carrying a handgun above a certain point in the north. You can maybe get an ATC but without ait I’ve never heard of any other way than using antique guns which are not considered firearms.
What law or regulation allows for carry beyond s certain point?
I believe you are correct. An ATC is “easy” to get for those that work in the wilds but even then not THAT easy from what I have read.
Otherwise, if you are not a DNR or police officer and you are out in the woods in Canada with a restricted firearm (hand gun or not) and it is not at a designated range, you are in a WORLD of legal trouble.
And there we have the main issue with Canadian gun laws!! Bad or incorrect information. Our firearm instructor told us above a certain point going north one could have a handgun for protection from wildlife!! Only people who are licensed trappers or people who work in remote locations as part of their employment can get that permission. Otherwise it is only non restricted firearms. I only shoot at a range and don’t hunt so i should have kept my two cents to myself!!
http://www.rcmp.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/PDF/wilderness-protection-animaux-sauvages-eng.pdf
Yes sir. It is a giant mess isn’t it. I have my PAL and was thinking of getting an RPAL but the PITA factor is not worth it right now.
And did you see that video of those guys in BC that were snookered by that RCMP that made it up as he was going along? Seized their guns due to not understanding that the LAR-15 mags were totally legal.
Another Robert says:
To go way back to the first sentence of the article: It seems to me that if gun control in Canada was a response to the Red River Rebellion, then you could just as easily say it has its roots in racism too. Metis and all, you know.
mrpiggy fingers says:
The huge majority of gun crimes in Canada are committed by Biker and ethnic gangs fighting over drug turf. Take away that faction and gun violence is minimal. More people drown in canoe accidents than die by gunfire. I do feel safer in the bush packing one of my .455 Webleys or .44 Russian S&W topbreaks but antique prices are outrageous now.
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Stuart Jeffries
The Opposite of Forgetfulness: Adorno on Gift-Giving
As we start our descent towards the seasonal hell of present buying, mutual recrimination, and buyer's remorse, it’s worthwhile to reflect on Adorno’s thoughts on gift-giving.
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To mark the publication of Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School in paperback we're publishing excerpts and pieces related to Frankfurt School thinkers.
No exchanges allowed. – Human beings are forgetting how to give gifts. Violations of the exchange-principle have something mad and unbelievable about them; here and there even children size up the gift-giver mistrustfully, as if the gift were only a trick, to sell them a brush or soap. For that, one doles out charity [in English in original], administered well-being, which papers over the visible wounds of society in coordinated fashion. In its organized bustle, the human impulse no longer has any room, indeed even donations to the needy are necessarily connected with the humiliation of delivery, the correct measure, in short through the treatment of the recipient as an object. Even private gift-giving has degenerated into a social function, which one carries out with a reluctant will, with tight control over the pocketbook, a skeptical evaluation of the other and with the most minimal effort. Real gift-giving had its happiness in imagining the happiness of the receiver. It meant choosing, spending time, going out of one’s way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of forgetfulness. Hardly anyone is still capable of this. In the best of cases, they give what they themselves would have wished for, only a few shades of nuance worse. The decline of gift-giving is mirrored in the embarrassing invention of gift articles, which are based on the fact that one no longer knows what one should give, because one no longer really wants to. These goods are as relationless as their purchasers. They were shelf warmers [Ladenhueter] from the first day. Likewise with the right to exchange the gift, which signifies to the receiver: here’s your stuff, do what you want with it, if you don’t like it, I don’t care, get something else if you want. In contrast to the embarrassment of the usual gifts, their pure fungibility still represents something which is more humane, because they at least permit the receiver to give themselves something, which is to be sure simultaneously in absolute contradiction to the gift.
In relation of the greater abundance of goods, which are available even to the poor, the decline of gift-giving may appear unimportant, and considerations on such as sentimental. However, even if it became superfluous in a condition of superfluity – and this is a lie, privately as well as socially, for there is no-one today whose imagination could not find exactly what would make them thoroughly happy – those who no longer gave would still be in need of gift-giving. In them wither away those irreplaceable capacities which cannot bloom in the isolated cell of pure interiority, but only in contact with the warmth of things. Coldness envelops everything which they do, the friendly word which remains unspoken, the consideration which remains unpracticed. Such iciness recoils back on those from which it spread. All relations which are not distorted, indeed perhaps what is reconciliatory in organic life itself, is a gift. Those who become incapable of this through the logic of stringency [Konsequenz: consequence, corollary], make themselves into things and freeze.
This is a superb passage from Minima Moralia, but one that would have made it difficult for friends to know what to get Adorno for his birthday. Probably not socks, though if any of them had made that error, it would have been wise to keep the receipt so he could take them back. At least that would have given him the pleasure of being able to lecture the gift giver on the “fungibility” of gift-giving, by which he meant the chilly suggestion implicit in each and every thoughtless gift, namely: “if you don’t want it, that’s all the same to me, get something else instead."
And certainly not iTunes vouchers, since they would demonstrate all too clearly that the gift giver has scarcely spent any time on thinking about what Adorno might like.
Socks and iTunes vouchers, viewed thus, aren’t presents but insults. Worse, they unleash a mutually disappointing vicious circle wherein the recipient is annoyed at what she’s been given and the giver livid at the ungrateful reaction. Don’t pretend you haven’t been in that circle.
That said, were Adorno still alive today, I don’t think it would have been so difficult to elude this woeful circle. I’d get him the DVD box set of the first season of Daktari, the wholesome late sixties drama series about an American vet working in Africa, starring Judy the Chimpanzee and Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, which Theodor and Gretl, improbably, used to enjoy watching in their declining years. And, probably, a DVD machine to play it on.
As we start our descent towards the seasonal hell of present buying, mutual recrimination, and buyer's remorse, it’s worthwhile to reflect on Adorno’s thoughts. Who among us gives in the manner Adorno seems to nostalgically yearn for? Who breaks from the shackles of administered society and the chilly cost-benefit calculations endemic to it when they buy presents? Who gives without expectation of reward or the paid-off debt that is gratitude? Hardly any of us is my guess.
But, to my mind, there is something fetishistic in Adorno’s romanticising of what gift-giving was like before we forgot how to do it properly, for all that his suggestion that the principle of exchange underpinning capitalism has corrupted how humans relate to each other seems to my mind obviously right. He seems to suggest that humans used to know how to give gifts gratuitously even virtuosically. I seriously doubt that gift-giving utopia ever existed.
True, he makes a good point about charitable gift-giving — how it “papers over the visible wounds of society in coordinated fashion." Certainly, charity has long been viewed sceptically by leftist thinkers, who take it as a means of keeping the poor in their place. Charitable giving for them is a gesture masquerading as kindness but involving, rather, aggressively humiliating the recipient. In 1845, Engels wrote in Condition of the Working Class in England: “Charity — when he who gives is more degraded than he who receives. Charity — when those who dispense alms also insist that those who receive them must first be cast out of society as pariahs." When I give some coins to the man sleeping rough under the bridge at Finsbury Park Tube station, I may yearn for his gratitude but, really, I’m entitled to only the opposite, since to give in such circumstances is a degrading act masquerading as kindness.
In Stigma and Social Welfare, Paul Spicker writes: "There is a conflict between reciprocity and altruism. Where reciprocity is the norm, there can be no such thing as a pure gift: some return is demanded or expected.” But has there ever been altruism without reciprocity or is that just a utopian dream?
Certainly reciprocity is the norm in our society. You give in the expectation of getting something back, even if it is as minimal as a glance of gratitude. Gift-giving thus becomes, as Jacques Derrida put it part of the “madness of economic reason." For Derrida every gift is bound in a system of exchange that makes giving it an impossibility. Even if a gift was given freely and with the imagination that Adorno supposed hardly anyone now is capable of, it could only become recognised as gift by means of its annulling opposite, reward: even if that reward is mere recognition by the recipient, the gift as such is undone, made impossible. Just as it is hard to imagine, for us as we live in capitalist societies, what it would be like if goods were made for use rather than for sale, so it is impossible — or so Derrida contends — to imagine what it would be for a gift to be given without the recipient becoming thereby indebted. “If the other gives me back or owes me or has to give me back what I give him or her, there will not have been a gift, whether this restitution is immediate or whether it is programmed by a complex circulation of a long-term deferral or difference,” argued Derrida in Given Time. In that book, gift-giving turns into a philosophical paradox, a social institution that undoes itself. On the plus side, this surely entails that there was no point getting a birthday present for Derrida, not even socks.
Derrida coined the phrase “madness of economic reason” in his commentary on another, non-capitalist form of gift-giving. The French sociologist Marcel Mauss had investigated “potlach” ceremonies of British Columbian indigenous communities. What Mauss noted, as David Harvey writes in his new book Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, was that these ceremonies entailed competition between households to give away or destroy possessions.
But there was something very different in these potlatch ceremonies from the gift-giving with which we are familiar. “It is not even a question of giving and returning,” wrote Mauss in The Gift, “but of destroying so as not even to appear to desire repayment.” The potlatch gift-giving ceremonies did not demand that recipients repay their debt to the gift giver, to be sure, but rather were premised on the gift givers’ expectation of as Harvey points out, of increasing prestige, honour, and status as a result. Viewed thus, potlatch ceremonies were lacking in the gratuitousness Adorno yearned for from true gift-giving.
What we seem to lack, as humans, is gift-giving without expectation of reward, be it power or the settling of a debt.
Adorno hoped for more. Spontaneous and joyful gift-giving is possible, he thought. “Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is a gift.” A lovely thought, though one painfully suggesting that we have a notion of how to give gratuitously that remains unrealised, perhaps even unrealisable, certainly in capitalist society.
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SHE may have won Marc Jacobs' latest campaign but Victoria Beckham's style hasn't impressed acerbic fashion commentator Mr Blackwell - who has awarded the Spice Girl the number one spot on his Worst Dressed of 2007 list. "In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty 'Posh' can really wreck-em," Blackwell notes in his 48th annual rundown of the year's fashion losers, published today. In second place, Karl Lagerfeld's new muse Amy Winehouse gets a dressing down for her "exploding beehives above, tacky polka-dots below," with "tattered toothpick trapped in a hurricane" Mary-Kate Olsen coming a close third. The diminuitive actress-turned-designer is followed by Black Eyed Pea Fergie ("when it comes to couture chaos, guess it's all in a name!"), Kelly Clarkson, Eva Green, Avril Lavigne, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan (who falls to a somewhat respectable ninth place, compared to last year's third), and former Little House On The Prairie star Alison Arngrim. Conspicuously absent from the list was last year's winner, Britney Spears - although the repeat offender didn't escape mention. "I felt that it was inappropriate at this time to make comment, when her personal life is in such upheaval," Blackwell said. "I hope 2008 is a better year for her." Yet despite noting that last year was one of the "most disastrous fashion years in recent memory", as ever, Blackwell managed to find an impressive selection of style mavens to head up the Best Dressed list; Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Reese Witherspoon, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes and Jemima Khan are among the stars who got honourable mentions. (January 9 2008, AM) [b] Leisa Barnett CLICK TO SEE LAST YEAR'S LISTS
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Trump should go back to Israel, where he comes from: Analyst
Home Government NEO – Rex Tillerson and the Myths, Lies and Oil Wars to...
NEO – Rex Tillerson and the Myths, Lies and Oil Wars to Come
Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor
by F. William Engdahl, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
Peak Oil premise plummets
[Editor’s Note: Mr. Engdahl has a timely retrospective piece on the pseudo-scientific battle over the theory of peak oil that had become a pseudo-religion, with big oil using the scarcity angle to keep their prices increasing. Imagine that.
What William lays out is a classic Intelligence psyops, starting with the readily available scientists’ willingness to write papers confirming the foundation of peak oil when they see a deep pocket sponsor. When looking into it, neither Engdahl nor the Russians could find a scientific paper that really established the original premise.
Someone made it up because it suited their purposes to do so, and it worked like a charm, allowing the big oil companies to enjoy some fabulous years of huge profits. But it is now destroyed with the track record Ukraine had, with its deep wells running at a 60% success rate and some of them producing over 2000 barrels a day.
VT has nibbled on this controversy over the years, our biggest contribution being that one of the reasons that Africa was kept in a permanent state of chaos was that it was sitting on an ocean oil, where certain parties never wanted that flooding onto the market, and it hasn’t.
This is the perfect piece for William to write, as he has been at this game for a long time, and was once a true believer of the traditional oil story before he crossed over the river. But that said, he does have a book to sell about his conversion journey, which is fair enough for those of us with limited time who want to know the real story.
As our readers know, that is what we try to do for you here, even if it involves our wading into passionate firestorms over everything from 911, to politics, or today into the deeper origins of hydrocarbon formation… Jim W. Dean ]
Peak oil was a well executed psyops that made some people a huge amount of money
– First published … January 29, 2017 –
Rex Tillerson, former CEO of the ExxonMobil oil colossus is not designated Secretary of State because of his diplomatic experience. He is there because clearly the Trump Project of those Patriarchs behind Trump–ones such as Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and others–want a person from Big Oil guiding American foreign policy the coming four years.
Already as President, Trump has given the green light to the controversial KeystoneXL pipelines that will not ship US oil, but costly Canada Tar Sands sludge. His EPA plans a friendly stance to the environmental hazards of shale oil production.
But most essential, with Secretary Tillerson, the US plans a major reorganization of control over oil, reminding of the oft-cited Kissinger statement, “If you control the oil you control entire nations or groups of nations.”
Kissinger had some major accomplishments, but some disasters
I want to give here a personal account of the change in my own belief about the genesis of hydrocarbons as I feel it will become increasingly important in the near future to grasp precisely what the Oil Game of the Big Four Anglo-American oil giants–ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP–is truly about. It’s about creating myths, lies and ultimately oil wars based on those myths and lies.
It was during the period in late 2002 as it became clear that the Bush-Cheney US Administration was determined to destroy Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein. How a US government could risk a potential break with its European and other major allies for any real or imagined threat from Iraq at that point puzzled me greatly. There must be a deeper ground, I told myself.
Then a friend sent me an article from a now-defunct website, From The Wilderness, founded by the late Mike Ruppert. The article laid out a major argument as to how the volume of oil in the ground was finite and disappearing rapidly. It argued that the single largest oil field in history, Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, was so depleted that it needed water injection of millions of barrels daily to get an ever declining output of crude oil.
They argued that Russia was past the “peak” in its oil. They illustrated their notion with the famous Gaussian bell curve graph. The world, after more than a Century in the hydrocarbon era, had consumed so much oil that we were near to “absolute peak.” Or so they claimed.
Absolute Peak?
I dug deeper, found other articles on the peak oil theme. It seemed to offer an explanation for the mad Iraq War. After all, Iraq according to estimates had the world’s second largest undeveloped reserves of oil after Saudi Arabia. If oil was in such short supply, it would offer an explanation.
I decided I should go deeper on such a pivotal question as the future of world oil and its potential impact on the very questions of war and peace, world prosperity or famine.
I went to the annual conference of something calling itself the Association for Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), held in May 2004 in Berlin. There I met the gurus of Peak Oil–Colin Campbell, a retired Texaco geologist whose research on well production had given the peak oil movement a seeming scientific foundation; Matt Simmons, a Texas oil banker who had writen a book titled Twilight in the Desert claiming Ghawar was well past peak. Mike Ruppert was also there as was peak oil author Richard Heinberg.
Far from being treated to a high level scientific demonstration of the geophysics behind peak oil, however, I was gravely disappointed to be witness to bitter, acrimonious verbal battles between peak oil critics such as an energy expert from the Paris International Energy Agency and various peak oil advocates who managed to lob mere ad hominem attacks on the Paris speaker rather than lay out serious science.
I decided to make a meeting with the then-President of ASPO International, Swedish atomic physicist, Kjell Aleklett, a few weeks later, at his University in Uppsala, Sweden, in an attempt to get a deeper scientific argument for Peak Oil. There Aleklett treated me to his latest slide show.
He argued that, as oil was a fossil fuel, we knew, through study of plate tectonics, where all major oil deposits were to be found. Then, citing depletion of production in the North Sea, in Ghawar, Texas and a few other spots, Aleklett claimed, “voila! The case is proven.” For me it was anything but proven.
An alternative view
Kjell Aleklett, Swedish atomic physicist, shilling for Peak Oil?
At that point, presented by Aleklett with what could only be described as a slide show loaded with unproven assertions, I began to question my earlier conviction about peak oil. Months before, a German researcher friend had sent me a paper by a group of Russian geophysicists on something they called “abiotic origins” of hydrocarbons.
I had filed it for future reading. Now I opened it and read. I was impressed, to put it mildly.
As I searched more translations of the Russian scientific abiotic papers, I dug deeper. I learned of the highly-classified Soviet era research begun in the 1950s at onset of the Cold War.
Stalin had given a mandate to the leading Soviet geo-scientists to, simply put, insure that the USSR was entirely self-sufficient in oil and gas. They should not repeat the fatal error that had contributed to Germany’s losing two world wars–lack of oil self-sufficiency.
Being serious scientists, they took nothing for granted. They began their work with an exhaustive search of world scientific literature for rigorous proof of the genesis of hydrocarbons, beginning with the accepted fossil fuel theory. To their shock, the found not one serious scientific proof in the entire literature.
I then read of the cross-disciplinary researches by academics such as Professor V.A. Krayushkin, head of the Department of Petroleum Exploration in the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, one of the leading abiotic scientists.
Krayushkin presented a paper following the end of the Cold War to a 1994 Santa Fe, New Mexico conference of DOSECC (Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth’s Continental Crust). There Krayushkin presented his researches of the Dnieper-Donets region of Ukraine. Traditional mainstream geology would have argued that that region would be barren of oil or gas.
Traditionally-trained geologists had argued it’s senseless to drill for oil or gas there because of the complete absence of any “source rock” — the special geological formations which, according to Western geological theory, were the unique rocks from which hydrocarbons were generated or were capable of being generated – presumably, the only places where oil could be found, hence the term “source.”
What Krayushkin presented to the disbelieving audience of American geologists and geo-scientists went against their entire oil genesis training. Krayushkin argued that the oil and gas discoveries in the Ukraine basin came from what geologists called ‘crystalline basement,’ deep rocks where Western geological theory claimed oil and gas (which they termed ‘fossil fuels,’) could not be found. No dinosaur fossils nor tree remains could have been buried so deep, the Western theory went.
Yet the Russians had found oil and gas there, something tantamount to Galileo Galilei telling the Holy Inquisition that the Sun — and not the Earth — was the center of our system. According to one participant, the audience was not at all amused by the implications of Russian geophysics.
The speaker from Kiev went on to tell the scientists at Santa Fe, New Mexico that the Ukrainian team’s efforts to look for oil where conventional theory insisted no oil could be found had, in fact, yielded a bonanza in commercial oil and gas fields.
He described in detail the scientific tests they had conducted on the discovered petroleum to evaluate their theory that oil and gas originated not near the surface – as conventional fossil fuel theory assumes – but rather at great depth in the Earth, some two hundred kilometers deep. The tests confirmed that the oil and gas had indeed originated from great depth.
The speaker clearly explained that the Russian and Ukrainian scientists’ understanding of the origin of oil and gas was as different from what the Western geologists had been taught as was day from night.
More shocking to the audience was Krayushkin’s report that during the first five years of exploration of the northern part of the Dneiper-Donets Basin in the early 1990’s, a total of 61 wells had been drilled, of which 37 were commercially productive, a success rate of more than 60%. For an oil industry where a 30% success rate was typical, 60% was an impressive result. He described, well-by-well, the depths, oil flows and other details.
Several of the wells were at a depth of more than four kilometers, a depth of roughly 13,000 feet into the Earth and some produced as much as 2600 barrels of crude oil a day, worth almost $3 million per day at 2011 oil prices.
Professor Vladimir Kutcherov
Following such reading, I came into personal contact with one of the leading Russian abiotic scientists, Vladimir Kutcherov, then a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden’s ETH or MIT. We met several times and he tutored me in the confirmed deep earth origins of all hydrocarbons. Not from dead dinosauer detritis and biological remains.
Rather oil is being constantly generated from deep in the core of the Earth in the giant nuclear oven we call the core. Under enormous temperature and pressure, the primal methane gas is forced to the surface through what they term migration channels in the Earth’s mantle.
Indeed, Kutcherov demonstrated that existing “depleted” oil wells, left capped for several years, had been proven to “refill” with new oil from deep under. Depending on the elements the methane migrates through on its upwards journey, it remains gas, becomes crude oil, tar or coal.
The implications of the deep Earth genesis of hydrocarbons were profound and forced me to change my previously-accepted belief. I read further the fascinating geophysical theories of the brilliant German scientist, Alfred Wegener, the true discoverer of what in the 1960s was dubbed Plate Tectonics. I came to realize that our world is, as the Dutch oil economist, Peter O’dell famously put it, “not running out of oil, but running into oil.” Everywhere, from offshore Brazil to Russia, to China, to the Middle East. I wrote what became one of my most read online articles, “Confessions of an Ex-Peak Oil Believer,” in 2007.
Indeed I realized that the entire foundations of Western petroleum geology was a kind of religion. Rather than accept the Divine Birth, Peak Oil “church-goers” accepted the Divine Fossil Origins. No proof needed, only belief. To this day there exists not a single serious scientific paper proving the fossil genesis of hydrocarbons.
It was posited in the 1760’s as an untested hypothesis, by Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. It has served the American oil industry, especially of the family Rockefeller, to build an immense fortune based on a myth of oil scarcity.
Today, clearly the new US Administration under a President Trump, with his ExxonMobil Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is returning to the era of Big Oil after eight years of Obama and alternative strategies. If our world is to avoid yet more carnage and unnecessary wars over bountiful oil, it would be important to study the true history of our Age of Oil.
In 2012 I published a book based on this work titled Myths, Lies and Oil Wars. For those interested, I’m convinced you will find it a useful alternative.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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wjabbe February 1, 2017 at 8:51 am
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” Richard P. Feynman, Ph.D., distinguished physicist
Trakkath February 1, 2017 at 8:33 am
Sometimes I think every thing you are told about by others you must believe while finding the truth for yourself and only this is not believe but knowledge.
Trakkath February 1, 2017 at 11:21 am
No, “the truth is what we believe to be the truth” says Trakkath
Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor February 1, 2017 at 7:41 am
Cynthia, The man made diamond are just as beautiful as the real ones, so the crazy thing is that there is no beauty reason to pay the huge price for a natural diamond, other than to show you could afford it. I thought they would really take off, but of course the entire jewelry industry smothered that.
NotAVeteran2 February 1, 2017 at 9:18 am
Who is this Cynthia you speak of?
Andrew_Bukanov(Russia) February 2, 2017 at 2:33 am
Jim, when i choose a ring for my lady and the natural diamond’s price is affordable – i take natural. Fionites are cheaper, but artificial. Everyone makes own decision.
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Gestalt Principles Applied in Design
Web designers, like other artists and craftsmen, impose structure on the environment. We enforce order and beauty on the formless void that is our blank computer screen.
We do it in different ways — creating an organized layout first, writing text and content first, or even basing a design concept on an image, a color palette, or something that visually trips your trigger, whether it’s a sunset or a Song Dynasty painting.
Wherever you gain your inspiration, it’s often not just the particular element that sparks your artistic impulse; it’s the totality of the element and its surroundings.
Grasping that totality concept — both the individual element and the whole in which it exists are important both separately and together — is essential to understanding how gestaltism influences our design choices.
We’ll cover 6 principles related to gestalt, in the context of design, and they are:
Prägnanz (Figure-Ground)
“Common Fate”
Gestaltism: A Matter of Perception
I think it’s imperative that we should use psychological techniques more in our designs.
I’m not saying design should be completely scientific or mathematical, but I do believe the best design comes when proven theory works in harmony with art.
The idea of the “gestalt” is a fairly old one, originating with early 20th century philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels along with his contemporary, psychiatrist Max Wertheimer, among others.
At its simplest, gestalt theory describes how the mind organizes visual data. The stronger the clarity of form, the more effective the design.
Let’s start with an illustration. This is called the “subjective triangle.” What do you see when you look at the figure below?
Source: Dr. Russ Dewey.
If you said “a hamburger,” go get some lunch and come back.
If you said “three Pac Man-looking things chomping on a triangle,” then you’re on target.
Except where’s the triangle?
The triangle is implied. It isn’t there, except as whitespace.
But look at it and tell me the triangle isn’t there. Yes, it is.
One of the bright minds of gestaltism, Kurt Koffka, made the famous statement, “The whole is other than the sum of its parts.”
His statement is often mistranslated as the much more familiar “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
Mr. Koffka didn’t like that translation, and pointed out that in his statement, he means the whole exists independently from the component parts.
The famous “Dog Picture,” shown below, illustrates a Dalmatian dog sniffing under a stand of trees. When you squint at it for a moment, you see the dog “come together” from the disparate black and white blobs of the picture.
Source: José Pedro Gomes.
You don’t say, “Oh, I see the feet, and the legs, and the head, and the trees, and okay, now I see the entire picture.”
You look at it for a moment and say, “I see it, a spotted dog sniffing the ground near some trees.”
You went from the initial “What the heck?” straight to “Ah a spotted dog under trees” — no stopping to list items and deduce from that list that you must be looking at a dog sniffing the ground near some trees.
This is an illustration of the concept of totality — you grasp the “totality” of something before worrying about the details. As Interactive Telecommunications professor Clay Shirky puts it, “you cannot understand all of the properties of water from studying its constituent atoms in isolation.”
So “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” misstatement is wrong. The whole is not greater than the sum of its parts.
We’ve seen this concept dozens of times with beautifully executed websites that have one glaring flaw — a poor graphical or typographical choice, bad use of spacing, a dysfunctional chunk of JavaScript, a dropped bracket in the CSS file that renders the whole thing less than what it should be, sometimes to the point of non-functionality.
The whole is different than the sum of its parts; not greater, not less than, just different.
We’ve seen this time and again as well, with sites constructed with simple design choices that work harmoniously and beautifully together.
The whole is important.
The parts of the whole are important.
The whole as it is comprised of its parts is important, and separate from the other two.
Let me stop before I start sounding like Yoda.
The concept underlying the concept of proximity is grouping. When we have a group of objects, we tend to see them as forming a group.
Proximity in Site Navigation
One basic concept of grouping in web design is with navigational links, where not only do we keep the navigation links together, but also group them internally, putting links to similar pages together, categorizing them into sub-categories, and so on.
The example below is from the site of a Lake Tahoe ski resort. Like most dropdown menus, it’s fairly simple at first glance, consisting of a single row of seven primary navigation link items (four are shown in the screenshot).
Site source: Alpine Meadows.
Hovering over a primary navigation link item reveals more sub-navigation links.
When a user hovers over or clicks on one of the primary navigation link items and sees that it reveals a dropdown sub-navigation menu, he’ll expect the same thing to happen with the next item.
They look the same and they’re grouped together — they should act the same way. And if we’ve done our job, they will.
Nothing new here, I know, but it’s something we use frequently, and we didn’t need to know about proximity to pull it off. But now perhaps we know more about why this design pattern works so well.
Proximity in Grouping Images
The 2002 Europe Music Awards site illustrates a different use of grouping. The MTV and Europe Music Awards logos form a separate group in the top left corner, while the logos of the sponsors form a group in the bottom right corner.
Source: Mads Soegaar.
The white space helps form the two groups, as do the two blue triangles in the corners. Note that the triangles are not present in the “unoccupied” corners, thus they reinforce the notion of the two groups.
Also note that the two organizational logos are larger and positioned top-left, thereby increasing their importance in relation to the cluster of smaller logos to the bottom-right.
The two clusters of logos not only form groups for design purposes, but for semantic purposes.
Proximity in Web Forms
The next example is of a fairly straightforward Web form from Yahoo!. Notice how the form is grouped into three segments: personal information, ID generation, and alternate ID provision.
The form implies that first set of fields is the most important and the third is the the least important.
They are grouped by headings (themselves ordered by number and set apart by color), and the fields themselves are arranged vertically, with the left sides of the field aligned with one another.
All of this reinforces the relationships of the of three groups of information, sorted by importance. Proximity is used to indicate grouping and importance.
Proximity in Icons
Another aspect of proximity is the propensity to perceive items arranged on a line or curve to be related to one another.
Web designer Stu Nicholls created a nifty (albeit non-traditional) circular menu in 2008.
Source: Stu Nicholls.
Because of the circle that all eight icons sit on, and because of the light gray circles that compose the “background” of the menu, the icons are perceived to be part of a similar group.
It also helps that the icons are thematically similar — with similar colors, sizes, and styles. In Nicholls’s live menu, hovering over an icon brings up a menu description inside the inner circle.
Are you grouping things correctly? Are you using proximity to help imply importance and relationships?
We’ve already seen this illustrated above — an example of parts of a whole (totality) working together to achieve a specific goal.
We group things perceptually if they appear similar to one another. This is also why so many designers prefer to use blue, underlined links, or at least have all the links appear distinct and the same as each other.
Similar appearance equates to similar function.
In the screenshot of the Opera browser’s old Preferences dialog window, the menu items are grouped by color.
Source: Mads Soegaard.
The gray background of the first four menu items group them together, and also sets them apart from the other items.
They are also highlighted by the icons that sit beside the first item in each group.
Inadvertent Dissimilarity
Like everything in life, incorrectly applying the similarity principle can cause unwanted effects.
During the 2008 US presidential campaign, People Magazine ran a cover photo of the McCain family, with then presidential candidate John McCain in the center.
Source: Melissa McEwan.
The McCains’ adopted daughter Bridget, a young woman from Bangladesh, was apparently “shoved into the corner,” occupying the bottom left corner of the magazine cover.
Combined with the effect of the top line of the cover text — which, if extended to the left, essentially “cuts” Bridget out of the picture — the photo gave some observers the idea that the McCains (or rather, the McCain campaign) were trying to “segregate” Bridget from the rest of the far more homogeneous family group.
One blogger, Melissa McEwan, noted that at the store she visits, the plastic holders that contain the magazines on the store displays blocked Bridget from view by potential buyers.
Truth be told, I’m no fan of John McCain, but I have no reason to believe that he does anything else except love and support his daughter.
The effect of the arrangement went unrealized, I’m sure, by McCain and the family members (who were on the other side of the camera and unable to see the effect of the arrangement until too late).
But because of the compositional choice of the photographer, art director, and the various editors involved in designing the cover, the image gave viewers the idea that the McCains were trying to hide the only member of their family that looked dissimilar physically, and caused John McCain, Bridget McCain, and the other family members some unasked-for grief.
McEwan wrote of People, “It doesn’t matter whether they intended to diminish Bridget on their cover, or merely failed to consider what message that would send. Either way, it’s a mess.”
And a mess that an understanding of similarity could have prevented.
What elements of your designs are you unintentionally over- or under-emphasizing as a result of a misuse of the principle of similarity?
Our perception of the figure-ground relationship allows us to organize what we see by how each object relates to others.
— Andy Rutledge
The “figure-ground” principle has to do with objects portrayed against a background.
There’s a reason why design gurus started telling us sometime in 1998 to stop using busy tiled graphics for our backgrounds — because they took away from the foreground objects.
This is Design 101. Foreground objects should be more prominent than their backgrounds.
There’s more to the figure-ground principle than just using appropriately unobtrusive backgrounds. The contrast and the visual tension between the figure (foreground object) and the ground (background) makes for interesting graphics and logos.
Examples of the “Figure-Ground” Principle
Take, for example, the old Visit Norway logo shown below.
The designers made use of both the foreground and background, creating three irregularly shaped objects (ocean waves, a tree branch, and a lump in a bird’s stomach — okay, I won’t swear to that last one) that combine to form the outline of a person with his or her arms outstretched.
Don’t see it? Think of the triangle illustrated above, and look again. If you still don’t see it, then you must have had the same trouble with those “magic eye” illustrations that I did; those things are all about figure-ground, as are many optical illusions.
Or you can just find the two people in the Hope for African Children Initiative logo below. Hint: a child is looking up at a woman, presumably his mother. (That’s why Namibia seems to have grown some real estate on its western coastline.)
Linux users will quickly recognize the old Gnome Desktop Environment logo.
It’s a “G”, yes indeed, but it’s also a footprint.
And Macintosh fans know that the Mac logo shows not just a happy face — but a happy face in profile, presumably looking with delight into their computer screen.
On the other end, we can see how the figure-ground principle is horrendously violated in this horse-training site. Usually I don’t hold up examples of sites doing things wrong, but since Vincent Flanders and “Web Pages That Suck” outed this site some time back, and the site proprietors left the problematic design in place anyway, I feel no compunction to show restraint here.
For those of you who sensibly hesitate to click the link, the site designer uses an animated background image of a lightning strike that’s tiled all over the page. Eeek!
It doesn’t take a sophisticated web designer to know that putting an obtrusive, visually aggressive image like that as your background takes away from your foreground objects.
Either those objects get lost in the background — which pretty much defeats the purpose of having anything in the foreground — or the foreground objects have to “shout” to be “heard” over the background “noise” usually by being very large and brightly colored to overcome the attempt of the background to dominate the design.
In two years of teaching web design and construction to middle- and high-school students, this is the biggest single challenge I’ve had; “weaning” them off of using extremely “loud” and obtrusive background designs. Many of them would love that lightning strike, almost as much as they love those “background” images of Waka Flocka Flame. I kid you not. I blame MySpace.
Rutledge points out that rounded buttons with gradient or other non-solid color backgrounds can be important in establishing them as calls to action.
Here’s Jacob Gube’s slick and clean call-to-action button as an example.
The rounded corners, borders, gradient color scheme, and resulting illusion of 3D “depth” set the button apart from its surroundings, inviting the user to perceive as something apart from the background and makes it easily identifiable as something that can be activated.
Lose the rounded corners, the borders, and especially the gradient color, and the button loses something of what makes it stand out from the background
Some of the most visually stimulating designs I’ve seen recently actually blur the lines between figure and ground elements, even interweaving the two. This is a classic example of understanding the intricacies of a rule; essentially once you have understood the rule completely you have a license to break it.
— in.house.media
Are your foreground objects working with your backgrounds to create a lovely, harmonious whole? Are your foregrounds fighting for the users’ attention? Are the backgrounds serving as an aesthetically and functionally workable backdrop to contain and set off your foreground elements?
Basically, the principle of symmetry tells us that when we look at certain objects, we see them as symmetrical shapes that form around their center.
You don’t have to get into advanced design to know that humans like symmetry, and find it aesthetically appealing.
When your designs are asymmetrically, you know you’d better have a good reason for making your design “askew.”
Symmetry occurs in nature, in math, in molecules, in everywhere.
Usually, symmetry to the average viewer means an object that is made up of two complementary halves.
What designers sometimes fail to realize is that when a viewer sees two unconnected elements that are symmetrical, they subconsciously integrate them into a coherent whole.
Finland’s CSC (the nation’s Center for Science and Technology) has a very simple logo that illustrates the idea of symmetry in design.
Though the logo sports two separate elements pointing in different directions and having different colors, the logo is easily viewed as a single entity because of symmetry.
Unlike most graphics and designs that deliberately employ symmetry in their design aesthetic (and that’s pretty much all of them — even the most grungy and off-kilter sites are aware of the principle; if only to use it minimally to contrast against all the asymmetry in their work), this one is almost perfectly reflective in its two elements. The only real difference is in the colors used.
Most designers use at least a trace amount of asymmetry to give their designs some character. Some use considerably more, to dramatic and beautiful effect.
Pepsi’s Famous Mid-2000s Logo
No longer in use in the US, the old Pepsi logo is an excellent example of near-perfect symmetry. Aside from the artistically “randomized” ice crystals, the logo is perfectly symmetrical both horizontally and vertically, with a wavy “axis” dividing the upper and lower halves.
Even the 3D airbrush “light and shadow” effect is almost perfectly symmetrical, varying just enough to give the image a realistic appearance of depth. The “ice” and the airbrushing are excellent examples of how “pops” of asymmetry liven up a largely symmetrical design.
Pepsi’s Asymmetrical Redesign
Pepsi redesigned its logo in 2008, using a variant on the old logo (itself a variant on an even earlier one) that some felt diverged too strongly from the symmetry of the earlier offering, with the tilted, variable-width axis and the red area far larger than the blue.
How do you feel about the newer design?
Symmetrical = Successful?
Bizcovering did a feature on ten symmetrical (and successful) corporate logos in 2007. The article poses the question, “All are symmetrical, perhaps this has something to do with their effectiveness?”
Asymmetry in Ransom Note Design
A more extreme example of asymmetry is the classic “ransom note,” which traditionally is made up from letters cut out of magazines, pasted onto a sheet of paper, and delivered to the victim during a thunderstorm with ominous music playing in the background. The whole thing stands for disorganization and a likelihood that the perpetrator isn’t concerned about delivering Aunt Gertrude home safe and sound.
Image generated by the Ransom Note Generator.
Notice anything symmetrical about the lettering? Most of them line up quite nicely, which is unusual for mad kidnappers with no sense of balance and form. I think the folks at Ransom Note Generator let their inner designer impose some unwarranted symmetry in their work.
Part of the reason why the ransom note is considered “scary” is because of its random, chaotic nature; asymmetry means action and the wildly asymmetrical nature of the letters implies action escalating into violence.
How’s the balance between symmetry and asymmetry on your sites?
I think I watch too many crime shows on television, because the first time I came across this concept, an image popped into my mind of some hardboiled New York cop slamming his fist down on a table and yelling, “If you don’t roll on your brother, you’re gonna suffer the same fate he does! Is that what you want, both of you doing twenty up in Attica? Sharing a common fate?!?”
If the idea unnerves you, then you probably watch the same shows I do, and you shouldn’t worry, you won’t go to jail by employing the principle of “common fate.”
The idea of “common fate” is simple: We perceive items or objects moving (or appearing to move) in the same direction as related to each other, more so than elements that are stationary or appear to be moving in different directions. Those related items are sharing a “common fate.”
The cars in the photo below form two “streams,” the left “stream” moving from top to bottom of the image (essentially “toward” the viewer) and the right “stream” moving from bottom to top, “away” from the viewer.
Source: stock.xchng
Although this is an entirely static image, movement is implied, and relationships immediately form.
In our designs, elements that “move” with one another relate to one another, while elements that resist that common movement or move in a different direction, do not relate.
This is a powerful, primal sensory cue among humans. Just think of the drivers’ reactions when a car comes down the lane in the opposite direction from everyone else. Consternation and chaos ensue within moments.
Common Fate in Dropdown Menus
Drop-down and sliding menus such as the one from RedBrick Health shown below — especially the ones that “slide” as opposed to just appearing in the blink of an eye — appeal to the “common fate” principle.
This main menu item has a slide-out sub-menu, so do the others. therefore the two items are related in our minds.
Common Fate in Tooltips
Tooltips also form an important informational relationship. If your tooltips always contain secondary but pertinent information, it won’t take long for a site user to put together — subconsciously — the relationship between moving/hovering the cursor and bringing up new information. As Rutledge notes, “[p]ointer-plus-information all moving together is a useful association.”
Counter-Example of Common Fate
This doesn’t just apply to moving elements, but also the orientation of designs. In my earlier days, I designed a site with two background color gradients inadvertently “fighting” with one another. The header gradient went from light to dark, left to right; the navigation bar immediately underneath went from light to dark, top to bottom. Individually, they worked well enough, but together, they clashed.
The horizontal “movement” of the header gradient didn’t go well with the vertical “movement” of the bottom gradient.
The “movement” of the two gradients flow against one another. The effect violates feng shui and “common fate” both.
Are there design elements in your work that fight instead of flow together?
Closure means that we “close” objects that are themselves not complete; not only completing the figure in our perception, but perceiving the figure as having an extra element of aesthetic design; we look for a simple, recognizable pattern.
Take a look at the old IBM logo.
You recognize the letters as an I, a B, and an M, no problem there.
But they aren’t letters at all; the whole thing is a compilation of bright blue horizontal lines arranged to create the perception of a set of letters.
Does it put you in mind of the old ASCII art that was so popular during the 70s and 80s? It does me.
Here’s a 1975 rendition of a Spanish conquistador, created by using punched cards and reprinted in a 1978 Dominican newspaper:
Source: Wikipedia.
One of my favorite examples of closure is depicted on the cover of Paul Thagard’s book called Coherence in Thought and Action.
It’s a nifty three-dimensional cube hiding in among the “spotlights” of lighter red. They are, in reality, 24 dissimilar red shapes on a darker red background. Our perception fills in the blanks.
Another example hit the newspapers in the late 1990s, when the “Face on Mars” stirred the public imagination. Some people were put in mind of the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey, wondering if aliens hadn’t left us some cyclopean artifact for our use if we could just find a way to get to it, while others thought about War of the Worlds and stockpiled their bunkers with ammunition and MREs.
A closer look proved the “Face” was just a landform. Guess we didn’t need all those MREs after all.
Pulling It Together
This article is just a quick look at the principles of gestalt as they apply to design. There is far, far more to the topic than can be addressed here. Do remember, though, that we introduced the concept of “totality” in the beginning of the article. Mindful of that concept, think back over the 6 principles we delineated.
None of them stood apart from the other; each one employed other principles as well as standing on its own.
For example, Nicholls’s circular menu depended as much on the laws of similarity and symmetry as that of proximity. Make the icons dramatically different from one another, for example, and the menu loses much of its functionality and aesthetic appeal.
Same with the “triangle that isn’t there” — it depends as much on the principle of closure as it does on figure-ground.
The RedBrick Health menu featured in this article not only employs the principle of “common fate” in its drop-down, but also the principle of similarity in its color choices.
None of these principles stands alone, and all of them function “in totality” with one another.
The concepts work with one another to achieve a totality of function, elegance, and aesthetic appeal.
Some of the best designers in the world know nothing of gestalt principles. They use them intuitively; when designs look and feel right, usually they incorporate gestalt principles whether the designers knows the terminology or not.
Gestalt principles aren’t artificial constructs that people have concocted to apply to design; they are attempts to describe and verbalize how we naturally perceive things.
It’s arguable that in at least some sense, “design talent” is an ability to naturally — and perhaps even unconsciously — understand how human perception works, and how to create designs for websites, paintings, or wedding dresses that are artistically beautiful and functionally efficient by appealing to it.
It doesn’t matter if you use these principles by instinct or by deliberation; what matters is how they can help you make better designs. These are things clients look for when choosing a web design agency, whether they are a college an online auto parts retailer, which is why they are important to know.
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Prosecutors in Navy war crimes case accused of spying on defense attorneys and Navy Times reporter
By: Brian Melley, The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers who told The Associated Press that they received the corrupted messages.
The defense attorneys told The Associated Press the intrusion may have violated constitutional protections against illegal searches, guarantees of lawyer-client privilege and freedom of the press, and may constitute prosecutorial misconduct.
“I’ve seen some crazy stuff but for a case like this it’s complete insanity,” said attorney Timothy Parlatore. “I was absolutely stunned … especially given the fact that it’s so clear the government has been the one doing the leaking.”
Parlatore represents Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who has pleaded not guilty to a murder count in the death of an injured teenage militant he allegedly stabbed to death in 2017 in Iraq. Gallagher’s platoon commander, Lt. Jacob Portier, is fighting charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for allegedly conducting Gallagher’s re-enlistment ceremony next to the corpse.
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Cycle Live Nottingham 2015 fundraising total announced
In June this year thousands of cyclists took to the streets of Nottinghamshire and we are delighted to announce that the event raised an incredible £27,171.26 for Wishes
We held a presentation at our head office in Nottingham last week to congratulate the top three Top Charity Fundraisers and Charity Challenge winner, and were joined by Cycle Live Director Chris Simon, and Raleigh Commercial Director Pippa Wibberley.
For a second consecutive year Sean Barrett, from Clifton and now living in Mansfield Woodhouse, was crowned Cycle Live Nottingham’s Top Charity Fundraiser and raised a staggering £1168, followed by Alain Mengoli, £1070.59, and Mark Dickens, £964.93.
Sean has participated in the Great Notts Bike Ride twice, and was delighted to be awarded with the accolade for a second time and receive a unique Cycle Live Nottingham yellow jersey. He said:
“I would like to thank family and friends from the Clifton and Mansfield Woodhouse area who sponsored me and made it possible to raise so much money for such a great cause. My fiancée, Julie Preston, and I have already signed up for the 2016 Great Notts Bike Ride so who knows, I could be awarded the honour for a third year.”
The Charity Challenge was awarded to Paul Beardmore from Long Eaton who participated in the Great Notts Bike Ride for a first time. Participants who fundraised over £250 were automatically entered into the Charity Challenge draw and Paul was rewarded with a £500 voucher courtesy of Raleigh UK.
Nicola Brien, Fundraising Manager and Chris Simon, Director of Cycle Live said a few words and made a toast to all of our winners before Maggie Falconer, Regional Fundraiser presented each of them with their certificates.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported the event and raised funds to help us continue granting Wishes for children living with life threatening illnesses. We are looking already forward to next year. Early Bird entries for the 2016 Great Notts Bike Ride are now open. The date for next year’s Cycle Live Nottingham event has been set as Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June 2016.
Visit http://www.cyclelivenottingham.co.uk/ for more information.
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FCC Releases Notice of Inquiry on Standardized Reporting Form
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comment on a proposed standardized disclosure form for television stations that will replace the current issues/programs list. The Commission continues to believe that a standardized form will facilitate access to information on how licensees serve the public interest and improve broadcaster accountability to the public, though it concedes that the Form 355 as adopted in the 2007 Enhanced Disclosure Report and Order was "overly burdensome" for broadcasters. Thus, the Commission proposes changes to the form to "substantially reduce" the burden it will impose on broadcasters.
Specifically, the FCC indicates that a sample approach to reporting (rather than reporting all programming aired for each category included in the form) would provide sufficient information to the public while lessening the burden on broadcasters, and it seeks comment on this approach. In addition, the Commission seeks comment on the specific reporting categories that should be included on the standardized form, including further clarification on reporting requirements for news, local civic/government affairs, local electoral affairs, closed captioning and video description and emergency accessibility complaints.
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Restaurant Crissier
It’s about 20 years since I last visited the little village of Crissier, just outside Lausanne, particularly to eat at Giradet, then considered to be the best restaurant in the world. I had been there a couple of times before and was amazed – not only for the finesse of the cuisine, but also for Frédy Giradet’s amazing generosity as to what appeared on his plates. To boot – it really wasn’t THAT expensive (at least not for what you got); in fact we did work out once that it was cheaper to fly to Geneva, train and bus to Crissier, stay in a local hotel garni, and eat sumptuously at Giradet for less than a weekend in a posh country house hotel in the UK! The wonderful assistance we received from Giradet’s English head waiter, John Davey, was an added bonus.
Frédy retired in 1996 to be succeeded by his second, Philippe Rochat, who now, in turn, has been succeeded by HIS second, Benoît Violier. Unfortunately, I never got to taste the cuisine of Philippe Rochat, but a visit last week to a friend living in Vevey, about 20km. away, gave me the chance to renew my acquaintance with that restaurant. In a way of history repeating itself, Benoît has just been acclaimed as Cuisinier de l’année, by the Gault Milau restaurant guide, as Giradet was just before the occasion of my first visit.
After taking over the restaurant earlier this year, Benoît went immediately about re-designing his kitchen and restaurant and they re-opened after 5 weeks of work this autumn. The restaurant itself consists of two spacious rooms, with naturally well-spaced tables, beautifully decorated in white setting off the works of art hanging on the beige background walls.
The real work of art, though, was in the cuisine and here we were not disappointed.
As is usual on the continent of Europe, there is a selection of prix fixe menus, ranging from SFR 185 for a “quick lunch” to SFR 390 for a 10 course blow out, but due to advancing age, I’m not sure if I could take that any more! My two companions, several decades younger than me, concurred anyway, so we decided to go à la carte. What swung that decision in a way, was the extraordinary array of game dishes on the menu. It turns out that Benoît is a game fanatic and is never more at home than when cooking game.
The choice on the carte was fantastic – Teal, Snipe, Woodcock, Ptarmigan, Wood Pigeon, Venison, Chamois and Hare, left me drooling and after much humming and ha-ing, I went for the pan fried Alpine Chamois chops with a pepper sauce. I persuaded my young friend to be bold and go for his first taste of woodcock and here it was roasted with a game sauce and accompanied with a giblet tartine. His wife, perhaps a little less adventurous, went for the pièce of grilled Limousin beef with a grey shallot confit.
Our pre-starter was a velouté of caviar and crispy chopped vegetables – a really good palate awakener. A fine selection of home-made breads, spankingly fresh, also got us off to a good start. My starter was an incredible dish – oeufs en surprise à l’italienne aux truffes blanches d’Alba façon Philippe Rochat – a tribute to Benoît’s predecessor. This consisted of two lightly boiled egg yolks covered with concentric rings of spaghetti, looking somewhat like Brünehilde’s breast plates (although considerably smaller, of course) in a jus made from the egg whites studded with 15 generous shavings of white truffle. The delicate consistency of the dish made it truly outstanding. Jean-Daniel’s croustillants de foie gras de canard du Périgord Noir aux cerises séchées, was intensely flavoured and surprisingly crusty on the outside with softness on the inside – no mean feat as I have seen this kind of dish messed up in other places a number of times. His wife, Roxane, chose Cône de champignons Sylvestres du pays de Vaud aux truffes blanches du Piemont, sacristains au cumin – a cone of local wild mushrooms, again garnished with white truffle shavings and little cumin sticks, rich, but light at the same time.
Oeufs en surprise ȧ l’italienne aux truffes blanches d’Alba façon Philippe Rochat
Cône de champignons Sylvestres du pays de Vaud aux truffes blanches, sacristains au cumin
On to the main courses. My Chamois was utterly delicious – perfectly cooked à point, and perfectly accompanied with the pepper sauce enhancing the slight gaminess of the meat. The only criticism here was that it really wasn’t warm enough for my taste, but this could have been because it might have stayed too long at the passe, or also because the policy of the restaurant is to send the dish out from the kitchen without sauces which are then poured on to the plate afterwards by the waiting staff. That’s a bit of a double edged sword – on the one hand it’s a good idea because the sauce isn’t left evaporating on a hot plate in the kitchen before it is sent into the dining room, but on the other hand, if there is a delay in putting the sauce on the dish, there is a risk of it getting too cold.
The woodcock was incredible. Split down the centre lengthwise, you had a perfect mirror effect on the plate. And of course, this made the eating of it that much easier, particularly in getting into the brain. With a whole bird, to get to this delicacy, you had to bite into the head and suck out the brain, but here you were supplied with the tiniest of spoons, so that you could scoop the brain easily out of the cranium which had been perfectly split in half. The breast was again, perfectly cooked à point and the deeply flavoured, gamey sauce was also light and delicate. I must say that I was very grateful to Jean-Daniel for letting me have a taste and so pleased that he found it so delicious as a game-eating novice.
The piéce de boeuf was based on a classic Troisgros invention of simplicity and accuracy of cooking although I felt the texture of the beef to be a little tougher than I expected.
Bécasse des bois en salmis, tartine d’abattis “grand siècle”
Pièce de boeuf du Limousin grillé aux èchalotes grises confites
All this was washed down with a bottle of Gamaret 2009 from Nicolas Bonnet, one of the top producers in the Geneva appellation. Gamaret is a hybrid grape produced by crossing Gamay with Reichensteiner and is especially found in French Switzerland. This example had more spicy depth than pure Gamay, quite full in the mouth and an excellent accompaniment to the game as well as the beef.
Desserts were a highlight, both pleasing to the eye as well as the palate. Roxane’s Guyaquil chocolate and coffee fondant was a dense piece of semi-melted chocolate wrapped around an equally dense coffee ice cream and Jean-Daniel’s meringues givrées au citron, orange et pamplemousse was an extraordinary concoction of little meringue balls hollowed out with frozen lemon, grapefruit and orange sorbet within – a simple effect, but oh so complex to produce – a masterpiece which tasted so refreshing and refined. My Baba aux vieux Rhum de Guadeloupe, crème double de la Gruyère à la vanilla de Bourbon, was a lovely light baba soaked in alcohol, but I found the accompaniment of the cream cheese a little on the heavy side and lacking a bit of unctuousness. I drank a glass of Amigne de Vétroz 2009 from Madelaine Gay, a pretty unique varietal found only in the Vétroz area of the Valais. This wine is produced either dry, medium or sweet. Of course I had the sweet version with my dessert, but it didn’t really have enough sweetness to compliment the dessert, which was a pity, but as such afterwards it was a very pleasant digéstif.
Meringues givrées au citron, orange et pamplemousse
To sum up – this is one of the finest restaurants that I have ever been to. The cuisine is accurate, punctilious, and above all, non-fussy. What I mean by this is that it is wysiwyg. (What you see is what you get). Everything on the plate, apart being beautifully presented, is edible and there are no too clever by half inventions or adventures into strange combinations that may or may not work. That’s very comforting. This is really Haute Cuisine with a capital “H”, a fine continuation to the guidelines laid down by Frédy Giradet 40 years ago, a continuation of perfecting traditional standards with modern aplomb.
Benoît and Brigitte Violier
Of course, this doesn’t come cheap. Our meal for three came to SFR 752 – about £500 or $800, but to sustain this level of quality, a large brigade of chefs are required in the kitchen and we also shouldn’t forget the front of house staff as well. In fact, service was pretty night impeccable – attention to detail without being either overbearing or obsequious was an important contribution to the overall satisfaction of the evening. And the sommelier gave us a great call with the Gamaret.
A busy kitchen!
I’m saving NOW to be able to come back next year!
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Food: 49
Wine: 18
Ambience: 5
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Facebook, Instagram down in large parts of the the world
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Facebook and Instagram are down across large swathes of the world with numerous users saying neither would load on their mobile phones or computer screens.
Some users got a message on their Facebook screens saying the social networking site was down for maintenance purposes, but would be back up soon.
Others just came up against a blank page.
At WION's office in Noida one user came up against a blank Facebook page, while another got the "down for maintenance purposes" message.
Another user was able to open and access his Instagram on his desktop while yet another said it would not load on her mobile phone.
News reports meanwhile said users were experiencing problems with their Facebook and Instagram in at least the US, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and parts of Europe.
The reason for the disruption is not yet known.
That left Twitter, on which #instagramdown was trending Wednesday night and to which a number of users gravitated to report the problem:
me logging onto twitter to make sure instagram is down for other people and not just me #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/mI2pnHE9wt
— ♡ ava ♡ (@v2ncentvanhoe) March 13, 2019
Me waiting for Instagram to be fine again#instagramdown #Instagram pic.twitter.com/HwDwoTQXMv
— Alex Quotes (@Alex_moods) March 13, 2019
People running from Instagram to twitter to see if other people are having the same problem #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/hqPrjjE3aK
— Jodie (@j0dieW) March 13, 2019
The news reports added that Google and Gmail had had issues too during the day.
Facebook meanwhile also took to Twitter to say it was "working to resolve the issue as soon as possible".
We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
— Facebook (@facebook) March 13, 2019
"We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack," it added.
A DoS (denial-of-service) attack uses a single computer and internet connection to attack a target and shut it down. A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the other hand uses several computers and internet connections to do the same thing.
A DoS attack is easier to fight back against since it would require the blocking of only one IP address.
Lawmakers narrowly approve Von der Leyen as EU chief
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Delta fare warning sends airline stocks lower
Major US airline stocks fell sharply Thursday after Delta Air Lines warned about weaker than expected sales ...
Major US airline stocks fell sharply Thursday after Delta Air Lines warned about weaker than expected sales and fares at the end of 2018.
Delta (DAL) shares tumbled 8% on the revenue guidance.
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The airline said it had been anticipating higher fares from business travelers making last-minute reservations in December, but those reservations didn't happen.
It was the second time in the last two months that Delta has lowered its revenue guidance. Delta said it expects earnings to come in at $1.25 - $1.30 a share, which remains at the high end of its previous outlook.
Still the revenue guidance spooked investors across the sector.
Shares of American (AAL), the largest airline, also plunged 8%, and United Continental (UAL) shares fell 5%. Southwest (LUV) shares were down 3%.
"Given when Christmas fell this year there was some hope business travel would stay strong through December 21, and that appears not to have happened for Delta," said Helane Becker, an airline analyst with Cowen, in a note to clients Thursday.
Becker said airline stocks fell because Delta's guidance offered another sign that the sector could be about to be hit by broader, global economic weakness.
"If you look at all the geopolitical issues affecting the world this year, the slowdown in China, Brexit in Europe, and what all of that means for the US economy, there's a lot of uncertainty. And the airlines have to deal with all of that," she told CNN Business.
Some good news for airline earnings, at least in the short-term, comes from the recent decline in oil prices. Delta said fuel costs in the fourth quarter were about 10 cents per gallon cheaper than it had previously expected. Fuel is a major expense for airlines.
But Becker said even that can cause some problems for the sector, since lower oil can prompt airlines to add more flights, which in turn leads to more competition and lower fares.
"Most of the airlines are hesitant to bring back much capacity in first half of 2019 because they don't know how long oil will stay this low," she said. "But if it stays here through the summer, you might see more capacity in the second half of the year."
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Networks wasted no time fact-checking Trump's Oval Office address
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"DID THE PRESIDENT CONVINCE YOU?"
That is the chyron on "CNN Tonight" as I'm writing tonight's newsletter -- and it's the big question heading into Wednesday. Did Trump's speech move the needle? Or, as John King put it earlier in the night, "Did the president win over any Democrats?" It's hard to imagine he did.
The brief Oval Office address didn't include any new arguments or information that would prompt anyone to be persuaded one way or another. As Fox's Chris Wallace bluntly summed up, "The President tonight was making an offer the Democrat's can't accept."
Trump's private admission to TV anchors
Earlier in the day, Trump hosted television news journalists for an off-the-record lunch at the White House where he reportedly made a huge admission. NYT's Peter Baker reported via sources in the room that Trump privately told the journalists he wasn't inclined to deliver the prime time address, but had been persuaded to do so by advisers.
One source told Baker that Trump conceded the speech was "not going to change a damn thing." The source said Trump went even further, saying his trip to the border was just a big photo op. Then he pointed to Bill Shine and Sarah Sanders and said, "But, these people behind you say it's worth it." In other words, even Trump didn't think he would persuade anyone with his speech.
>> Publicly, of course, Trump played up his speech, tweeting late Tuesday night, "Thank you for soooo many nice comments regarding my Oval Office speech. A very interesting experience!"
So were the networks played?
Before the networks made the decision to air Trump's address, a debate raged in media circles: Should the channels turn over their valuable air time for what was almost certainly going to be a political speech? After some deliberation, every broadcast and cable news outlet decided to do so. Ted Koppel told NYT prior to the speech, "When the president of the United States asks for airtime, you've got to do it." And look, at the end of the day, networks were put in a difficult position.
But now, in hindsight, I'm wondering: Are TV execs comfortable with their decision? Bill Carter tweeted, "Networks should feel totally burned. Shouldn't they come out + tell WH: That was a fraudulent request; forget asking for platform for your political posturing ever again?" And Erik Wemple noted, "Looks like the White House secured major network TV time for an address that repeats all of the president's arguments on immigration, only, this time, through a TelePrompTer."
Stelter's view
Brian Stelter emails from Las Vegas: I'm here at CES, where I can report that... umm... almost no one watched the speech or the Democratic response. Here's my sense: The cable newsers are almost always going to carry a big prime time presidential speech. The broadcast networks are inclined to say yes, as well, though it's more complicated for them.
The broadcast execs noted that this was Trump's first time asking for airtime for an Oval Office address. They also noted that the country is in the midst of a partial government shutdown. Given the newsless nature of this address, they are likely to be a bit more skeptical the next time Trump requests time... But this is the bottom line: One of the powers of the presidency is the power to address the nation.
Fact-checks galore
TV networks did air Trump's speech in the most responsible manner in which they could, fact-checking his claims immediately after it concluded. NBC "Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt noted that the president repeated "some of the dubious claims he's made in the past." ABC's Cecilia Vega helped check facts with George Stephanopoulos. "Just because you say it's a crisis, doesn't necessarily make it one," Vega said. Fox's Shep Smith listed off a number of areas on which Trump misled the public during his speech. And CBS "Evening News" anchor Jeff Glor told viewers the he hoped to "fact check any inaccurate assertions."
>> That said, Tom Kludt flagged a salient point from Glor who said, "There is some nuance to some of these arguments that unfortunately [due to] time, sometimes gets lost."
...even in the chyrons
CNN and MSNBC not only spent much of the evening checking Trump's claims against the facts on-air, but they did so aggressively in the chyrons. Throughout the night, I noticed various fact check's (like the one above) being employed by both of the networks.
All that said, are we fact-checking the right way?
Alex Koppelman emails: One argument we've heard frequently during the discussion over whether or not networks should take Trump live is that we all provide comprehensive fact-checks, both on air and online, of what he says after he says it, or sometimes during. That's a good thing, no question -- but when it comes to justifying taking him live, there's a major caveat that I haven't seen discussed: We don't really know if fact-checks work, or whether we're doing them the right way.
A 2011 CJR article noted that one study showed that the more effective way to fact-check the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is a Muslim would be to state the fact -- Obama is a Christian -- rather than state and correct the falsehood. The same researchers also explored the effect that the race of the people conducting the research survey had on respondents' answers about these facts, and concluded, "our findings suggest that the context in which corrective information about sensitive topics is delivered affects how people perceive and respond to them."
This is not settled science by any means -- but there are people studying it. And if we as an industry are going to rely on fact-checking as our shield when we choose to give over our space to words we know will contain misinformation, we should be talking to those researchers, providing funding for their work, even bringing them in-house to help us test and improve our approach. We owe our audiences more than just going with our guts and hoping it works out.
Highlights from cable
CNN: Hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon featured analysis and fact checking from reporters and contributors. Lemon opened up his show with a thorough fact-check of Trump's speech.
Fox News: After Bret Baier signed off Fox News' special coverage, Sean Hannity spent much of the evening unsurprisingly advocating for Trump's position on the wall. Guests included Lindsey Graham and Mark Levin, both of whom were supportive of the president.
MSNBC: Rachel Maddow scored a big guest, interviewing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who slammed Trump. "The one thing the president has not talked about is the fact he has systematically engaged in the violation of... human rights on our border," Ocasio-Cortez said, according to Mediaite. "He has separated children from their families."
Trump took his talking points from right-wing media?
This should come as no surprise. The Daily Beast reported that ahead of his Oval Office address, Trump "leaned on a number of advisers for how to navigate the government shutdown he'd waged over funding for his border wall." The advisers, per The Beast, included Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs who encouraged Trump to continue demanding funding for the wall.
>> Related: Tomi Lahren noted in this tweet that Trump's Oval Office address used similar rhetoric to commentary she had delivered on Hannity's show. "Something @realDonaldTrump said in his #OvalOfficeAddress tonight sounded familiar..."
An ongoing conversation
Stelter emails: The accumulation of daily deceptions and fear-mongering matters a LOT more than a single speech. But this episode has sparked some smart discussions about the media's Trump coverage. Hopefully it'll continue. I talked with The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner about these issues... Here's the Q&A...
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-- Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" lampooned Trump's speech with a "Bird Box" parody... ("Late Show")
-- Bret Baier has signed a new multi-year deal with Fox News. He will co-anchor Fox's election 2020 coverage and continue serving as the network's chief political anchor... (Deadline)
-- Sumner Redstone and his family have settled a legal dispute with his former companion Manuela Herzer... (WSJ)
-- Ben Shapiro responds to Tucker Carlson's monologue on populism: "In truth, his brand of populism isn't particularly new....It's an attempt to rally government behind preferred conservative causes..." (National Review)
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Republicans block attempt to release entire Mueller report - despite Trump claiming it ‘totally exonerates’ him
Andrew Buncombe
The Independent March 25, 2019
Republicans have blocked an attempt by Democrats to force the release of Robert Mueller’s Russia report in its entirety – despite Donald Trump claiming it was “a complete and total exoneration” of him.
A day after attorney general William Barr released to Congress the main conclusions of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell stopped a Democratic effort to ensure all of it was made public.
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted 420-0 in favour of making the report public, with no Republican opposition.
On Monday, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer asked for unanimous consent for the nonbinding resolution, previously passed by the lower chamber.
“Whether or not you’re a supporter of President Trump....there is no good reason not to make the report public,” Mr Schumer said, according to The Hill. “It’s a simple request for transparency. Nothing more, nothing less.”
But Mr McConnell did not agree.
He said given it took Mr Mueller and his team almost two years to complete his work, it was “not unreasonable to give the special counsel and the justice department just a little time to complete their review in a professional and responsible manner”.
On Twitter, he added: “No collusion. No conspiracy. No obstruction. It’s good news that we can conclusively set aside the notion that the president and his team had somehow participated in Russia’s interference in our electoral process.”
In his report, Mr Mueller said he found no evidence of a direct link between what he said were Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, and the Trump campaign. On the issue of whether the president had obstructed efforts to investigate possible collusion, he set out the case for and against in regard to several incidents.
Yet he “determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement”. In turn, Mr Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, decided the president’s actions did not constitute a crime.
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What we should learn from the rise of Ash Barty
After taking a break from the game, Ash Barty has returned to tennis and is now the number 1 women’s player in the world. Picture: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP
by Paul Spinks
11th Jul 2019 7:23 PM
I was watching an Ash Barty press conference during Wimbledon and what caught my attention was the question around advice for Naomi Osaka, the young Japanese player who seems to have lost her love of tennis.
Barty responded that we're all on a different journey and that what worked for her might not necessarily work for Osaka.
What was clear in Barty's response, though, is that she's a caring young woman who has found a way to deal with the pressures of her workplace with a positive outcome, and feels deeply for her colleague.
Elite sport is a high-pressure environment, so it's no surprise to see more and more athletes from multiple codes finding the need to take a break.
It shows that as a society, we're making progress in putting ourselves and our mental health first.
MORE OPINION: What makes Ash Barty great isn't her on-court performance
And it's not only athletes taking a break, but also singers, actors, public personalities and politicians admitting to needing time away from the high-profile pressures of their work.
Some blame the rise in social media and the intensity of the 24-hour news cycle for the escalation in mental health issues among those in the spotlight.
I see it more as a reflection of society in general.
Right now, we are seeing record rates of anxiety and depression in our workplaces across the country and the western world.
Ashleigh Barty credits taking a break from tennis with her renewed love for the game. Picture: Matthias Hangst/Getty
Given the pressure to work harder, keep pushing ourselves to the point of breaking, work longer hours and to take work home with us thanks to technology, it's little wonder we are seeing the need for mental health breaks.
It does beg the question, of what our life's highlight reel will be filled up with by the time we sit back in the rocking chair of life. Will it be the two BMW's in the driveway, the bigger house or getting home early from work to spend time with the kids?
Perhaps the accurate measure of life should be making it through with our mental health intact.
For many of us, work begins the moment we step out of bed; checking emails, texts and posting on social media platforms.
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By the time we hit the office, we've already worked for 2 or 3 hours. We come home and are back on our devices until the moment we go to sleep and then push repeat as soon as we open our eyes in the morning to do it all again.
Our workplaces are on a precipice as we follow the highly stressed workers of nations like China, Japan and the USA.
Surely, in the 'lucky' country we can strike a better balance.
Why don't we offer 10 mental health days a year on top of the standard sick leave, with all the employee needing to do is to tell their employer that they need a break?
Or even go a step further and reconsider the standard working week, creating a four-day working week.
Would we be brave enough to stop rewarding long hours and try and instead to reward workers who finish on time?
The answer is likely an emphatic 'No', however with mental health costing Australian businesses close to $11 billion per year, it may be time to pull our head out of the sand.
We're seeing the impacts of mental health, with over three to four days per worker being lost each year through workplace stress, with compensation claims for stress having doubled.
MORE OPINION: Golden age of women's sport has just begun
Every dollar spent on identifying, supporting and case-managing workers with mental health issues yields close to a 500 per cent return in improved work output and reduced sick and other leave.
Business owners, shareholders and senior management need to flip the way they view the work of their employees, to stop counting the hours they are at work, and to start counting the hours they are not.
Creating a workplace where they are more invested in the health and mental wellbeing of the worker, as opposed to the focusing only the health of their bottom line.
Let's all take a lesson from the Ashleigh Barty's of the world and evolve our own plan to stay mentally refreshed, as Barty has shown it creates a better engaged and more productive employee, which is a win-win for all.
Paul Spinks is a paramedic, trauma counsellor and mental health advocate.
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Arkansas feels slight relief as ice storms fade
As a series of ice storms which hit the southern plains begin to move off, residents who were without power have started to feel some relief.
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Jan. 2, 2001—As a series of ice storms which hit the southern plains begin to move off, residents who were without power have started to feel some relief.
Thirty more Arkansas counties were added to a federal disaster declaration, making up a total of 52 counties in the storm-chilled state. President Clinton had made the original Major Disaster Declaration on Dec. 28, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
This means individuals and businesses, as well as local governments in these counties, are now eligible to apply for federal and state disaster-recovery assistance.
A Jan. 1 report from the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (www.adem.state.ar.us) said that water and/or sewer systems in 22 counties were still affected. Experts are still working to put a dollar amount on the damages.
Cold air has kept ice frozen on trees, power lines and streets as utility crews worked to restore power to thousands of Arkansas residents. Two major storms in the last two weeks have knocked down power lines and stopped water service to many communities in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. At one point, power was knocked out to half a million customers in the region.
The latest storm, which came through Oklahoma and Arkansas over the New Year's weekend, did not cause many additional problems but it did slow workers' attempts to restore power.
A little over 40,000 homes and businesses remained without power today, according to a report from ABCNEWS.com.
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Additionally, federal funds will be available to the state and affected local governments to pay 75 percent of the eligible cost for debris removal, emergency services and debris removal. For more information, visit FEMA's web site at http://www.fema.gov/.
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Netanyahu mostly said the right things yesterday in his speech to the American Congress; he mostly said them with the wrong timing; and many of the reports on the speech are unreasonable or uninformed or both.
First, an historical fact which is not open to interpretation. Netanyahu broke substantial new ground in his speech. No Israeli prime minster before Ehud Barak spoke openly about Israel recognizing Palestinian sovereignty. Not because they couldn't imagine such a thing, but because it was assumed such Israeli recognition was an important negotiating chip, to be played at the right time. Barak played it at Camp David in July 2000, and in return got praise from President Clinton which no-one remembered half a year later. At the time, however, Barak pretended nothing he had offered was real unless an agreement was reached, as if he could take back what he had offered. So Barak never gave an official speech recognizing Palestine. Nor did Sharon. Olmert may have: it was certainly his position, and since he was prime minster later than Barak, the reluctance to speak openly was gone. Yet Olmert presided over a center-left Israeli government. Netanyahu spoke yesterday about Israel's being the first to recognize a sovereign Palestine, if only the Palestinians reach an agreement with us. He said this in a speech watched by millions, as the head of a right-wing Israeli coalition.
We've come a long way from Golda Meir saying "there is no Palestinian nation", and indeed, we've come a long way from the positions of Yitzchak Rabin, remembered worldwide as a brave Israeli leader seeking peace: Rabin never said there'd be a sovereign Palestine, he never intended to move back to the lines of 1967, and he never would have dreamed of dividing Jerusalem. On the first two, Netanyahu, for all his verbal gymnastics, is to Rabin's left. Moreover, the assumption all over Israel's media today is that he enjoys broad support in the Israeli electorate for his positions.
Not that you'll find any of this in the international media's reports. Here's the New York Times:
His speech broke no new ground concerning the peace process, but it was not expected to. Israeli officials said that Mr. Netanyahu could hardly lay out new proposals to an American audience without telling his own people first.
Palestinian officials were dismissive of Mr. Netanyahu’s message, saying it included no new concessions along with the new demands.
The Economist will appear in print only on Friday, but their first web response is that
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, addresses a joint session of Congress with a speech that was big on hype but short on substance
Haaretz, far to the left of either the NYT or The Economist, thunders that
Netanyahu wasted the generous credit he got from his American hosts to cast accusations at the Palestinians and impose endless obstacles in connection with the core issues. Instead of accepting the principle that the border between Israel and the Palestinian state would be based on the 1967 lines, Netanyahu declared that the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in Judea and Samaria.
He couched his readiness to make far-reaching concessions within endless conditions that have no relation to reality.
What are Netanyahu's conditions which are so far from reality, pray tell? First, there's his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jews, as Palestine will be that of the Palestinians. It seems a perfectly reasonable requirement, unless both sides agree on an end to the conflict and relinquishing of all future demands in an agreement which contains no right of return. Essentially, the two demands are the same thing: if there's no right of return and there is an end of conflict, then the Palestinians indeed don't need to proclaim their recognition of Israel being the Jewish State. So far no Palestinian leader has ever said openly that he will relinquish the demand for a right of return, or even hinted that he might recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Until a democratically elected Palestinian leadership which can deliver on its words does this, there will be no peace.
Netanyahu then said Israel would never move back to the lines of 1967. This is also a fact. No Israeli government ever will. The question is what happens to the 5%, give or take, which won't be relinquished, and what will be given in return. This has been the topic of much discussion between negotiators over the past 18 years, and will continue for a while yet. What would Haaretz have expected? That Netanyahu say he'll dismantle Modi'in Illit?
Finally, there are Netanyahu's demands that Palestine be demilitarized, a demand any sane (and electable) Israeli leader will always make; and the demand for a military presence along the Jordan River. I'm not enough of a military man to know how extremely essential this really is, especially if Palestine itself is demilitarized; it's aimed against Jordan and Iraq, not the Palestinians.
Then there's Jerusalem. Netanyahu says it can't be divided, and of course he's right. Barak and Olmert offered to divide it, but fortunately the Palestinians weren't interested. I certainly hope that Netanyahu's position will be that of all future prime minsters, since the reality of dividing Jerusalem will never bring peace.
The summary of all this is that Netanyahu is now staking roughly the same positions his predecessors took, from 2000 onwards, and is well to the left of Rabin and Peres in the 1990s. He - and they - enjoyed a broad consensual support among Israel's voters, now bolstered by a prime minster of the political right. The Israeli electorate is willing - some are eager - to live alongside a sovereign Palestine, but on conditions the Palestinians cannot remotely accept. So there will be no peace anytime soon, as all reasonable observers know, and have known for years.
The main thing to regret is that Netanyahu didn't give this speech two years ago. Had he spoken this way when he and Obama were both new in their jobs, the chemistry between them would have been much better, and the positions Obama would have taken would have been different. Look how close they are right now, in spite of all the smoke and mirrors about profound disagreements. Precisely because peace between Israelis and Palestinians is not possible in our generation, it is crucial that Israel's leaders always position themselves as wisely as possible. This means doing everything reasonable to maintain active good will between Israel and the US, and giving Israel's dwindling friends in Europe something to work with. Had yesterday's speech been the official position of Netanyahu's government all along, as it has been the position of most of the electorate, this would have been easier to do.
AKUS said...
There was one very interesting new statement of what has probably been discussed behind closed doors before, but never in public.
As far as I can tell, Netanyahu was the first PM to point out that if an agreement is reached, some Jewish settlements/communities will lie beyond Israel's border with a Palestinian state - e.g., Jews in Hebron, or in one or two larger settlements that are not close to Jerusalem. His reference to "Greater Tel Aviv" meant, I assume, that Ariel will remain in Israel's hands.
This is a shock for some of the settlers who adamantly refuse to contemplate a likely future reality, no doubt, but also means that he has finally realized that he can throw the racism card back in the face of the Palestinians - if they refuse to accept Jews in the West Bank, as Jordan does, who then are the racists?
Barry Meislin said...
Of course, Netanyahu is talking nonsense.
Whatever "settlement," or town, or city, or building or garage or shack or platform, or shack or structure of any kind that finds itself in any area governed by Israel's Partners in Peace (Inc.) will be ransacked, razed, shredded, burnt to the ground.
To the immense satisfaction of the oppressed.
The model, the precedent, the future(?) is the greenhouses in Gaza.
File under: "Burn baby, burn"
NormanF said...
In an ideal and sane world, both countries would be open, tolerant and happy.
The reason there's no peace is because the Palestinians are not yet ready to accept Israel. It may take them a few more generations to come around to it.
Israelis can soldier on, knowing they have done everything they can to attain peace on acceptable terms. One day, it might happen.
It just won't be in our lifetime.
Silke said...
Josef Joffe still can't make out Obama and as best I know he isn't even left or an unconditional Israel supporter - he is editor of German DIE Zeit and a member of the Hoover Institute.
So if Joffe hasn't managed to figure it out after so many months why should Netanyahu have known it right from the beginning?
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/88875/obama-middle-east-israel-netanyahu-abbas-1967
and here he is at amazon
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=josef+joffe&x=0&y=0
All in all I don't know where to place him - maybe that's why he seems so spot on to me when he describes another unplaceable?
But what about Netanyahu's Bar-Ilan speech in 2009. Most of the points he made in Congress and at AIPAC's meeting he had made in that speech already. So I don't think the chemistry has anything to do w/Netanyahu's position but rather w/ Obama's intellectual distance towards Israel. Jennifer Rubin had a good point: Obama has been thus far all around the world but not to Israel. My guess is a visit in Israel would have given him credit w/Netanyahu and created confidence in Obama's administrations commitment to Israel.
Given the ignorance Obama displayed on everything from his great-uncle to Israel's founding and the history of Islam/Arab-US relations, I'm not sure anything would have helped. Livni clearly couldn't create a coalition that openly froze construction in Jerusalem.
On a cheerier topic
http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/text_context/unearthing_first_shuls
on excavations of early synagogues in the Galilee and the Golan Heights.
Kevin -
The Bar Ilan speech took place in Hebrew, at an unofficial venue, in an unofficial context. Capitol Hill is not like that. Also, if you compare the tones of the two speeches, the one in Congress was emphatically more positive. Most significant, however, has Netanyahu been able to say to Obama from day one: We welcome a Palestinian state, and it will be on most but not all of the West Bank, and we'll leave settlements outside it or dismantle them but they won't be able to block a Palestinian state - then his interaction with Obama might have been different. Rather than argue with the man, he'd have been able to say "look, I want something similar to what you want, now let's see you deliver the Palestinians. Instead, it has ben 2.5 years of clashing with Obama, and the Palestinians get to pretend, spuriously, that we're the ones blocking progress while they're the victims.
We have to remember the context when Netanyahu gave the Bar Ilan speech. There were plenty of American pundits and officials who were suggesting that if you put pressure on Netanyahu you can break his coalition and bring Livni to power.
Netanyahu's speech was less about negotiating anything and more about harnessing the Israeli consensus to show that he wasn't going anywhere.
Since Victor is not going to do it himself I do it. I think he has the best post on the subject that I have come across hitherto and yes that includes all my favourited haunts. Young Victor beats them all ;o)
I like it so much because of the history I learnt from it, because it sounds plausible to me and because it doesn't indulge in any What-Iffery and/or If-only-ery.
http://victorshikhman.blogspot.com/2011/05/american-pressure-israeli-resistance.html
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Saul Lieberman said...
Fatah/Hamas are not the kind of enemy you can make peace with. So there is no deal to be made now. The rest is commentary... or managing the process.
Perhaps recognizing Palestinian sovereignty remained an important Netanyahu negotiating chip - to be played only when the Palestinians might get UN recognition.
Lydia McGrew said...
"The main thing to regret is that Netanyahu didn't give this speech two years ago. Had he spoken this way when he and Obama were both new in their jobs, the chemistry between them would have been much better, and the positions Obama would have taken would have been different. Look how close they are right now, in spite of all the smoke and mirrors about profound disagreements."
I disagree, Yaacov. I don't think you understand our President. He is profoundly anti-Israel, and there is nothing Netanyahu could have done to change this. He and N. are not "close" in their positions unless N. blames Israel for everything and wants Israel to make, right now, immediate, unilateral, and suicidal concessions to the Palestinians. Since presumably (even on your own account), N. doesn't, he and Obama are not "close."
This President is not a friend of Israel. It's a big mistake for Israelis to think that he is or ever will be, and it's an even bigger mistake for Israelis to blame themselves for the negative vibes they are getting from him. The biggest mistake of all will/would be making concessions to try to earn his good will. Fortunately, Netanyahu doesn't seem to be committing this mistake.
Sérgio said...
I totally agree with Lydia. Right at the begining I had this suspicion that Obama-mia was a fraud, an empty vessel with a façade of rethorical skill. By now it´s clear he´s an ideological arrogant idiot and even his rethorical skill is gone. I just can´t stand his "Now,..." or "Listen..." crap.
As Silke said somewhere else, he stands for nothing, except for a half-baked semi-digested and morally bankrupt type of PC-"internationalism". In sum, despite all of his irresponsible arrogance and presumptiousness, he remains that same old "community organizer" he was trained to become. And he should have kept doing that.
the_raptor said...
Yaacov, Lydia is right. For a good analysis of Obama's rigid ideological framework, sometimes concealed by tactical pragmatism combined with outright lying, see Andy McCarthy's "Obamacare for Israel
We have seen this Obama two-step before" http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268034/obamacare-israel-andrew-c-mccarthy
It's not the speech that has brought the public positions of Obama and Netanyahu together, it's the open revolt of the Democratic leadership.
Even if Livni had been PM, there would have been a demand for a major concession to bring Abbas back to the table. To 'strengthen' Abbas. And to make Obama look good.
Too many times, Abbas has defied the US with hardly a murmur, in fact in several cases he was rewarded. When Netanyahu did 85-90% of what was asked, Obama screamed it wasn't enough. That suggests more than tactical considerations were at play.
Walter Russell Mead supports my (gut) feeling that Obama stands for nothing -
I still can't believe it, usually very measured WRM (Democrat) goes for all-out bashing.
And over night I remember what that kicked-out Obama advisor said that they had created? Brand Obama and were doing well with it. I don't remember having been told who those "they" were but they certainly have not been doing something useful.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/05/25/the-dreamer-goes-down-for-the-count/
And Sergio -
the stuff about the rhetoric was clear from the beginning. It was only those bash Bush no matter what "intelligentsia" who kept insisting that it was there.
As I keep telling I remember more than one journalist saying after an event during the campaign that he couldn't remember afterwards what exactly the now president had talked about.
I have so wished to be wrong at the time, since blacks all over the world certainly could profit from a truly brillant poster child.
Arik Elman said...
You're jumping to numbers which have no support in Israeli public. People think of keeping between 15 and 25 percent of the WB, not 5, and certainly not with any "equal swaps", which are like keep your hand and cut out your leg.
"I have so wished to be wrong at the time, since blacks all over the world certainly could profit from a truly brillant poster child." Silke
Well, and that´s what they´ve got: a poster child, period.
I confess I loathe this typicaly "progressive" thing that one should "cheer" one of our "group" that has got there.
A person should be judged by his individual character, integrity, abilities and achievements, and not cheered a priori just for being a "representative" of the current "excluded/oppressed" group.
not many decades ago I would have agreed with you. When they first came up with that women quota thing in Germany I was deeply embarrassed but though it still embarrasses me quite a bit I have to admit that I am proven wrong day in day out.
If the world will be a better place when we have our equal share I have no idea but at least nobody sane tells me anymore that being good at math is bad for my cute little head and I hope no other young girl has to stand up against those ridicules these days
Silke,
People have different talenst/abilities and, for good or bad, these are just not distributed uniformily. Men have different abilities within themselves and different abilities than women and vice-versa, and this includes cognitive and physical abilities. Andm yes, some people are *better* than others in some abilities which are currently valued (and soem extremely well paid, such as top soccer or basketball players).
Not recognizing this fact is sacrificing reality, truth and objetivity at the altar of PC-ideology of total egalitarianism. It´s indeed atotalitarian project, as if harmony and happiness will follow from an equal number white and black soccer players, or of male and female nurses/mathematicians/social workers.
This is insane, un-real (in fact, surreal) and only generates major hypocrisy, delusion, injustice and disappointment.
Now (as the current POTUS would have said, aaargh!) one should be allowed the free *choice* of one´s career (and then assume the corresponding responsibilities of the necessary preparation, study, work, difficulties and sacrifices).
IF, in the future, an equal (or greater) number of females will be mathematicians/engineer/neurosurgeons, that´s great. Same if more and more men decide to be care-taker/nurses/psychologists, that´s wonderful.
But wbat if people still choose more or less as they always did? Well, that´s ok too, because it would have been their choice. But forcing a situation against reality is plain ideological stupidity.
it is not about more women becoming mathematicians, it is about not getting ridiculed for liking math or feeding babies.
Below is a piece which quite accurately describes my current unease with the excesses feminism indulges in i.e. you and I agree except for one small but important point.
Sometimes a society has made a fortress out of something and then it needs more than patiently chipping at it with a chisel in order to get things fluid again. That after a breach has been accomplished things regularly tend to get exaggerated in the other direction is one of the sadder facts of life.
But it does not do away with the necessity for that first breach of the fortress.
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0526hm.html
that's about describes it how we started out
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me,”
and now we insist that we have no obligation to self-defend at all. Shame on us!
And it is not only about us women it is what seems to be happening with the queer issue also.
The pendulum goes from necessity to exaggeration until another pendulum from necessity beats some sense back into the exaggeration.
And these un-necessary pendulum oscillations cause lots of damage to people, and all that because some
ideologues, disguised as experts/educators/pedagogues or whatever, came up with their "revolutionary" solution of the world´s problem. These peope are dangerous.
and I disagree
it isn't only the fault of those who push it into a hype it is also the fault of all of us.
Intoxicated by new freedoms we have disregarded those who wanted to put in stops again and again. None of them seemed convincing enough at the time and even today I couldn't for the life of me say where the right lever would be to get this unfolding madness back into the realm of reason.
The only indicator I have that I may have come to my senses is my by now more than 5 year old "tolerance" of religious people. Amongst them seem to be found the biggest clusters of people who have kept their sense of proportion of propriety intact.
A guy named Paul Saffo said on the Economist podcast the other day only half-jokingly that it was kind of time for a new religion.
Maybe Jewish communities opening lecture halls real and/or online for non-Jews with the explicit goal of non-conversion might foster a seed. (just dreaming due to the studies Yaacov tells about once in a while.)
Hey Silke,
There is some outreach like this being done. Of course, there have always been non-Jews studying Jewish texts with Jews and being inspire by Jewish traditions. But speaking of a more organized movement...
I know that the Chabad community, for example, is getting its feet wet with distributing knowledge about the Noahide Laws. Here's an decent article about it.
I've heard of formerly Christian congregations which have adopted a more Noahide model, mainly in the south and west - Texas, California.
The basic point is, the Jewish faith doesn't say you have to be Jewish to be a good person. Conversion in the Torah has never been equated with salvation or judgement.
You know, I've had friends - Muslim and Christian - who were actually offended when I told them that I am not interested in converting them. They were actually insulted, as if I told them they weren't good enough to be Jews. The point is, they don't need to be Jews to be good, which is a concept oftentimes missing from mainstream Christian and Muslim practice.
However, while we don't look to convert anyone, the Torah isn't only concerned with Jews. It is a universal document, a blueprint of creation, and as such, it makes requests of both Jews and non-Jews.
The Noahide Laws are the condensation of the laws affiliated with non-Jews, and actually include much of what we Jews study and practice.
The resources in observant Jewish communities are quite limited, so this limits outreach capacity. The Noahide movement needs to build to a certain critical mass until it's able to fund and sustain its own growth. It's not there yet, but maybe in the next 20 years we'll see something interesting evolve.
This seems to be a popular book on the subject.
There's even a Noahide community in Germany: http://www.kinder-noah.de/
Thank you Victor
I'll sure read it, but right now I feel shy again, because
I am very convinced that I am not "good person" material and that my energy available to try to become a good one is almost non-existent.
No I am not being facetious, I think too many (compulsory) religion hours in school with the horror picture of the nailed to the cross man in front of me have cured me from that once and for all.
Whenever I get a glimpse it is the brain gym that fascinates me, the heights of lawyerly contortious thinking you seem to indulge in that is what "turns" me on.
BTW there was a Dutch guy who seriously studied Zen-Buddhism before WW2 in Japan and wrote a book about it. At one point he wanted to convert and his master said "what for?" i.e. at least the Zen-ones don't do conversion either
- it is an interesting book and has helped me a lot finding my own path through all those opinions. but strangely enough only in German - oh no here it is, he goes by another name with amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mirror-Experiences-Japanese-Monastery/dp/0312207743/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1306522017&sr=8-1
come to think of it Yaacov's "legal" stuff combined with Zen-Koans and Zen's physical disciplines replaced by something from Feldenkrais and I'd become a disciple tomorrow
- no need to believe only to abide by whatever is considered/agreed upon conducive to what? a feeling of unity maybe, of being less confused of being more tolerant of absurdity? or as that one Greek used to say "what is good for the life"
(Feldenkrais by itself is already very good for the life, mentally and physically, provided the teacher doesn't overreach)
Sorry, Silke, for now I am the one that disagrees (surprise!).
I don´t see how any new or old religion will solve anything about humanity. Religions tend to become panaceas and humans are too complicated, greedy (in the sense of wanting it all) and ambivalent to stick to such demanding stricturs. Moreover, religions *have* to assume the existence of a super-natural super-powerful being, which goes against everything we learned through centuries of painstaking scientific and philosophical research: there´s just *no* evidence whatsoever for such an hypothesis.
So, I´d rather stick to the less-than-exciting secular humanism
(not of the proselytizing brand) and to the ethics of "enjoy life and help others live enjoyable lives" variety (with all the caveats and limitations entailed by that).
wrong again
Moreover, religions *have* to assume the existence of a super-natural super-powerful being
Zen-Buddhists not only don't have to assume they aren't even remotely interested in thinking about the possibility.
As best I understood it they exercise trying to do understand the impossible. The exercise tends to give them health problems why I'd prefer it to be replaced by Feldenkrais.
Hach, another one of your basic assumptions destroyed ;-)))))
Bhuddism is *not* a religion.
BTW, according to Lavoisier, nothing is really destroyed, just transformed.
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2-2 Mixed Strategies and Nash Equilibrium (II)
博弈论
Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind," game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call `games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them? The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We'll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications. You can find a full syllabus and description of the course here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/GTOC-Syllabus.html There is also an advanced follow-up course to this one, for people already familiar with game theory: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gametheory2/ You can find an introductory video here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Intro_Networks.mp4
Game Theory, Backward Induction, Bayesian Game, Problem Solving
It was such a helpful course that gave me the opportunity to learn few basic methods and terms about game theory through lots of interesting and to the point examples by three unique professors
Easily the most challenging introductory course I've taken, but definitely worth it. I must say though that I learnt more from failing the quizzes than the lectures or practice questions.
Week 2: Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibria
2-1 Mixed Strategies and Nash Equilibrium (I) 2:34
2-2 Mixed Strategies and Nash Equilibrium (II)14:00
2-3 Computing Mixed Nash Equilibrium 11:45
2-4 Hardness Beyond 2x2 Games - Basic 5:12
2-4 Hardness Beyond 2x2 Games - Advanced 20:50
2-5 Example: Mixed Strategy Nash 10:33
2-6 Data: Professional Sports and Mixed Strategies 10:44
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Yoav Shoham
选择语言英语（English）
This lecture is going to introduce the idea of mixed strategies and
extend our previous concept of Nash Equilibrium to this new definition.
Let's begin by looking at the matching pennies game.
Recall that it would be a pretty bad idea to play any deterministic
strategy in this game.
For example, if player two were to play heads,
then player one would want to respond by playing heads to get a payoff of 1.
Meaning that player two would prefer to change to tails so
that he can get this payoff of 1.
Meaning that player one would prefer to change to tails so
he can get this playoff of 1.
Meaning that player two would prefer
to change back to heads to get this payoff of 1.
Meaning that player one would prefer to change back to heads as well,
to get this payoff of 1 where we started.
And so you can see there's kind of a cycle
where we just bounced around between the different cells of this game matrix.
And essentially argued that no pair of deterministic strategies works for
both players, so what does work for both players?
Well essentially, it does make sense for
players to confuse each other by choosing to play randomly.
So intuitively, instead of saying, I'm going to commit to playing heads or
I'm going to commit to playing tails, I can say,
I'm going to commit to flipping this coin and playing whatever side comes up.
So let's try to make this idea formal.
Before we talk about the idea of pure strategies which we just
equated the playing actions.
Now let's think of things in terms of probability distributions.
So let say that a strategy for an agent is any probability distribution over
the actions that the player has available to him.
And the pure strategy then is the special case where I play
only one action with positive probability.
A mixed strategy says,
I'm just going to play more than one action with positive probability.
There might be a couple of different actions that I signed
positive probability to, like in my example with matching pennies.
I'm going to call the support of my mixed strategy
the set of actions that get positive probability.
So for example, when I flip a coin when I'm playing matching pennies,
both heads and tails are in the support of my mixed strategy.
My support is the set, head, tails.
I'm going to define the set of all strategies for
an agent i to be capital S sub i.
And I'm going to define the set of all strategy profiles capital S to be
the Cartesian product of this strategy set for the different agents.
Now I have the problem that I've elaborated my definition of strategies in
the game to include not just this finite set of things players can do.
But this infinite set of all of the probability distributions
over these finite sets.
The reason this is a problem is I only have a utility definition for action
profiles and now I'm allowing things to happen that I don't have utilities for.
That is to say, I can't just read a number out of the game matrix to figure out
how happy the players are when something happens.
Because under a mixed strategy with a supportive size greater than 1,
I won't always end up in the same cell of the matrix.
So I can extend my definition of utility here
by leveraging the idea of expected utility from decision theory.
So these equations explain what this means,
it looks a lot more complicated than it is.
So what I'm saying here is that i is utility under mixed strategy profile
s where little s is some element of the set of all possible mix strategy profiles.
Big S is equal to the sum over all action profiles in the game.
You can kind of think of this intuitively as the sum over
all of the cells in the normal form of the game.
Where I take the utility of each cell and I multiply
it by the probability that that cell would be reached in the given mixed strategy.
The probability of getting to cell a,
strategy profile a as reaction profile a given strategy profile s.
And then of course I need to define what this probability actually is and
that's given here.
The probability that I'll get to a given action profile,
given a strategy profile s, is just the product of the probability
of each player playing his part of that action profile.
So, for example, if this player was
playing with probability 0.5 on each action and
this player was playing with probability 0.5.
Then the probability that I will get to this cell is 0.25.
This action profile rises with probability 0.25
because this thing happens half the time and this thing happens half the time.
And so we have to multiply those two probabilities together to get the joined
probability of this action profile, so that's what the definition here is saying.
So in total, my utility for
a strategy profile is my expected utility, taking an expectation over
all of the action profiles in the support of that strategy profile.
And weighting it to them by the probability that action profile would
actually arise.
Well now that I've defined what strategies are,
I can go back to my definitions of best response and Nash equilibrium.
And basically they work the way they did before,
except I change all of the a's to s's.
So that means I have to write these definitions again, and
I'll go through them again.
But conceptually, if you understood what best response and
Nash equilibrium meant in the case of actions, then everything will work again.
So I will say that a strategy s*i is an element of the set
of best responses to strategy profile s-i when the following condition is true.
For all other strategies, si, the player i could take,
for all of the strategies in the set of possible strategies for that player.
Notice that this is an infinite set, but that's okay, the definition still works.
Then the utility that the player would get for playing as *i,
when everybody else plays the strategy profile s-i,
is at least as big as when he plays this other strategy si.
So let me say that again, s*i is the best response
to strategy profile s-i if it's at least as good as anything else,
given that everybody else is playing s-i.
Now, we can say that a strategy profile s is a Nash equilibrium if it's
the case that for all agents, everybody is playing a best response.
Incidentally, you might notice that I'm using a set membership operator
here rather than an equal sign which is you might expected to see.
Well, the reason I don't use an equal sign is because
the set of best responses might have more than one thing in it.
So, there might not be only one best response,
sometimes there'll be multiple best responses.
And so here what I'm saying is,
a strategy profile is one of the best responses if this condition is true.
And, I'm saying a strategy profile is a Nash equilibrium if everybody is playing
one of their best responses.
Well, this might seem like much to do about nothing.
I've introduce this idea of randomizing as a strategy.
I've redefined utility then I've leveraged this redefined definition of utility
which is incidentally what I'm using here when I talk about
the utility of strategy profile.
To define best response, I've then leveraged that definition of best response
here to talk about Nash equilibrium.
And in total I just ended up kind of saying everything that you've already
heard us say.
But what does matter, is that now that we have a definition of Nash equilibrium,
we're able to state a theorem that we didn't have before.
And this is Nash's famous theorem,
this is the reason why Nash gets the Nash equilibrium named after him.
And this is one of the main reasons why Nash got the Nobel Prize.
This theorem actually didn't take very long to prove but
it's a really important thing for a Game Theory.
And the theorem is that every finite game has a Nash equilibrium.
First of all, what is a finite game?
This sounds like I'm hedging here but it's not much of a hedge.
A finite game just means that the game takes a finite amount of space to write
down, so it has a finite number of players,
it has a finite number of actions for every player.
And that means it has a finite number of utility values in the game
because the number of utility values is determined by the number of players and
the number of actions for each player.
So, as long as the game has a finite number of players,
not just two players, but any finite number of players.
And a finite number of action for
each player, not just two actions but maybe a very big game.
Then, no matter what the payoff values are,
no matter what strategic situation we're talking about here.
No matter what real world interaction this is modelling, there's going
to be at least one Nash equilibrium in this game, that's a pretty deep thing.
That's saying,
there will always be some stable thing that all of the players can do.
Which has the property that if they knew what everyone was doing,
none of them would want to change their strategy.
That's basically one of the main reasons why we care
about this idea of Nash equilibrium.
Because we know that no matter what the game is we can find such a Nash
equilibrium and
reason about that, that's why Nash equilibrium is such a powerful thing.
And that's only true when we have this fuller
definition of Nash equilibrium here that we've just defined in terms of strategies.
We saw that when we talked about Nash equilibrium in terms of just
actions before what we'll now from this point on refer to as pure strategy
Nash equilibrium.
So pure strategy Nash is when we do all of this with a's instead of s's,
that's a pure strategy Nash equilibrium.
And the sad thing about that is that we don't get
a theorem that says that every finite game has one of those.
But this mixed energy Nash equilibrium always exists.
Let's do some examples, so remember Matching Pennies?
Well we just argued at the beginning of this video,
effectively the matching pennies doesn't have a pure strategy Nash equilibrium.
But it does have a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium, it has one and that is
as I suggested before, for both players to randomize 50-50.
And that doesn't mean that it always has to be 50-50.
That just happens to be what the natural equilibrium is here,
that comes from the symmetry of the payoffs.
But that turns out to be the natural equilibrium here.
Let's come back to the coordination game, where we previously seen that these two
strategy profiles I'm circling outcomes but
remember an outcome isn't an equilibrium.
You know 1, 1 isn't the equilibrium, that would be wrong to say.
The right thing to say is that left, left is an equilibrium.
Right, right is an equilibrium but
it turns out there's another equilibrium here.
So it turns out again, 0.5, 0.5 is the Nash equilibrium here as well.
And that's kind of funny because it doesn't seem like 0.5,
0.5 is such a good thing to play in this game.
But you can confirm to yourself that if player one is randomizing by playing
50-50, then player two can do no better than to randomize 50-50.
Now you'll notice that player two could do just as well by playing something else.
If player one is playing 50-50, player one is just as happy to go left all the time.
But in particular, if player one's going 50-50,
player two can do no better than to go 50-50 himself.
The reverse is also true and that makes 50-50, 50-50 and
Nash equilibrium of the coordination game as well.
And let's look at prisoner's dilemma.
In prisoner's dilemma we've previously seen that this is an equilibrium and
it's an equilibrium in strictly dominant strategies.
And we argued before that equilibria and strictly dominant strategies are unique.
And so what that means is indeed
there are any mixed Nash equilibria of the prisoner's dilemma.
This is in fact they all mean Nash equilibrium.
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Best Christmas Songs of All Time, Ranked
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It's that time of year again, Christmas songs are the only thing on the radio. It's almost like you can't catch a break, but we're definitely not complaining. Everything is a bit more enjoyable with your favorite holiday tunes playing in the background.
Classic Christmas songs are fun to sing along to, but more modern tracks keep holiday spirits just as high. As long as the tree is up and the fireplace is on, we won't be picky about the song.
You definitely have a favorite Christmas song or two out there. We've create a list of 10 of the best Christmas songs of all time, and we wan't you to rank them! Go ahead and vote for all of your holiday favorites!
Ashley Ferraro
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There are a ton of versions of 'Jingle Bells' that circle around during the holidays, but Michael Buble's take of the song is definitely the best.
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Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is a delicate love song that meshes perfectly with the holiday season.
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'Last Christmas' by Wham! is definitely a classic that will put you right in your holiday feels!
Christmas In Harlem
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Kanye West's 'Christmas In Harlem' featuring Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Vado, Cyhi Da Prynce & Pusha T puts a very modern twist on how we listen to Christmas music.
Underneath The Tree
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Kelly Clarkson hits all the high notes in her holiday hit track, 'Underneath The Tree'.
Wonderful Christmas Time
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'Wonderful Christmas Time' by Paul McCartney was a huge hit in 1979, and it's still one we hear every Christmas season.
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Elvis Presley's 'Blue Christmas' reminds us that the holidays aren't always the most joyful time that everyone talks them up to be.
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There have been plenty of versions of this song throughout the years, but nothing gets us quite as excited for the holidays like Jackson 5's version.
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Dean Martin's 1959 version of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' is a holiday staple with a touch of romance.
8 Days Of Christmas
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'8 Days Of Christmas' by Destiny's Child is a sassy Christmas song that gets the whole family in the mood for Christmas!
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2019 North Spokane Corridor Projects
A project to build the mainline freeway bridges over Freya Street, north of Francis is wrapping up. And, a contract to complete the NSC from Columbia Ave. to Freya Street, including the completion of the interchange at Freya Street is underway.
Long-term temporary closure of Wellesley Ave. Wellesley Ave. between Market St. and Freya St. will be closed when construction begins in late summer to early fall 2019. The closure of Wellesley Ave. will last three years. The newly constructed Wellesley Ave. interchange is expected to open near the end of 2022 (view animation). Travelers should expect both temporary and permanent road closures as NSC construction north of the Spokane River commences next year.
Concurrent with the Wellesley Ave. interchange project, additional work, and projects being completed are:
NSC from Carlisle Ave. to Wellesley Ave.
Realignment and relocation of the BNSF railroad track to make way for the future NSC mainline alignment from Rowan Ave. to Cleveland Ave.
Construction of a bridge over Euclid Ave.
Construction of the accompanying Children of the Sun Trail, and the pedestrian-only bridges and amenities associated with the shared use trail from Columbia Ave. down across the Spokane River.
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US 395 North Spokane Corridor and Children of the Sun Trail Placemaking
Extend the corridor to I-90 and provide a connection to the Interstate. This practical design allows the use of the full length of the corridor and can be opened in sections as construction progresses south. The final series of construction projects have begun and will continue until the entire facility is completed in 2029. Approximately $879 million in funding will complete and connect the NSC into I-90 through the Connecting Washington package passed by the legislature in 2015.
Why is WSDOT building the North Spokane Corridor?
Originally conceived in the mid-1940s, this project improves mobility by allowing motorists and freight to move north and south through metropolitan Spokane, from I-90 to US 395 at Wandermere. Once complete, the NSC will decrease travel time, fuel usage, and congestion, while improving safety by reducing collisions on local arterials.
The NSC is considered a multi-modal corridor; as a freeway, it maximizes vehicle capacity and contributes to freight hauling competitiveness, by moving vehicles and freight traffic away from local arterials and on to a free-flowing freeway. It supports alternative transportation choices by providing: for future park and ride lots, vanpooling operations, reserves enough right-of-way for high capacity transit and provides a pedestrian/bicycle trail along its full length.
When fully complete, the North Spokane Corridor will be a 60-mile per hour, 10.5 mile-long north/south limited access facility; that connects to I-90 on the south end (just west of the existing Thor/Freya Interchange) and connects to existing US 2 (at Farwell Road) and US 395 (at Wandermere) on the north end.
Interchanges are located along the corridor, at: Trent Avenue (SR 290), Wellesley Avenue, Francis/Freya Street, Parksmith Drive, US 2, and US 395 at Wandermere.
Needs & benefits
Consider the following benefits:
Travel time between Wandermere and I-90 will be shortened to approximately 12 minutes.
The NSC is a free-flowing freeway facility that doesn’t conflict with schools, parks or shopping areas; but still will have reasonable access to them.
Fewer trucks will be on the local arterials because they will be using the freeway for north and south destinations points.
Spokane will have cleaner air because drivers won’t be stopping and idling at intersections.
Provides a safe bicycle/pedestrian trail that connects to the Centennial Trail and other established trail systems, as well as neighborhoods within the Spokane area.
The NSC creates jobs that will improve the economic vitality of the region.
In April 1997, the NSC Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was approved by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In September 2000, a supplemental FEIS was approved for the Spokane River north to US 395 at Wandermere section.
In August of 2001, the North Spokane Corridor broke ground with the first construction project titled “Hawthorne Road to US 2 - Grading”. This was a grading and drainage project that was completed in July 2002.
In 2003, the State Nickel Gas Tax Package allocated $321 million to fund the project between 2003 and 2011; this allocation provided funds for design, right-of-way purchases and construction of the Francis to Farwell and the US 2 Wandermere & US 2 Lowering projects.
In 2005, the State 9.5 cent, Transportation Partnership Act (TPA) gas tax allocated $152 million to fund the project between 2007 and 2019. This allocation provides funds for right-of-way acquisitions north and south along I-90, between the Liberty Park Interchange and the Sprague Avenue Interchange, for the future Collector/Distributor System and to design and construct a noise wall project along this same section of I-90. This allocation also provided funding to design the “shovel ready”, southbound lanes project between the Francis/Freya and Farwell Interchanges.
In 2009, the Washington State Legislature allocated an additional $28 million in TPA funds for the corridor. WSDOT chose to use this funding in the Hillyard area, from the Spokane River to the Francis/Freya Interchange. This additional $28 million allocation brings the total TPA funding for the corridor to $180 million ($152 million in 2005, plus $28 million in 2009).
On August 22, 2009, the first Nickel Project, Francis to Farwell (between the Francis/Freya and Farwell Interchanges) opened to traffic.
The 5 1/2 mile north half of the NSC is fully completed and open to traffic in October 2012.
The first project for the south half, the Francis Avenue Bridge Replacement project began construction in late 2012 and was fully opened to traffic in June 2014.
The Connecting Washington package, passed by the Legislature in 2015, provides full funding to complete the North Spokane Corridor.
Pre-Existing Funds (PEF) = $158,435,000
2003 Gas Tax (Nickel) = $292,614,000
2005 Gas Tax (TPA) = $92,478,000
Special Cat. C = $69,272,000
Connecting Washington = $879,900,000
Total Funding = $1,491,699,000
Bob Hilmes, Design Project Engineer
WSDOT Project Office
2714 N. Mayfair
E-mail: hilmesb@wsdot.wa.gov
Future NSC US 395 Wellesley Interchange visualization. (Above) Looking North along NSC US 395. The Wellesley Interchange will consist of roundabout ramp terminals to expedite the traffic flow through the interchange.
View more photos on Flickr
Current construction on the future US 395 from Columbia to Freya St. (May 20, 2019)
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IAEA confirms Iran building 2nd enrichment plant
UN nuclear agency says informed by Islamic Republic that it is running new, previously undeclared, facility to enrich uranium. Iran states facility a pilot, or experimental-level, enrichment site that is not yet in operation
News agencies |Published: 09.25.09 , 11:04
Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction which will produce nuclear fuel only for the purpose of making electricity, the agency said on Friday.
"The agency also understands from Iran that no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility," International Atomic Enmergy Agency spokesman Marc Vidricaire said, adding that a letter from Iran had arrived on Monday.
Pretending Innocence
Ahmadinejad: Nuke plan has medical purposes
Yitzhak Benhorin
Iranian president meets with US newspaper editors, says his country's disputed nuclear program is a 'humanitarian issue'
"In response the IAEA has requested to Iran to provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible," he said, so UN inspectors could verify it would be used for peaceful purposes only.
Iran is under three sets of UN Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment. Government officials said that Iran revealed the existence of a second enrichment plant in a letter sent Monday to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
It had previously said it was operating only one plant, which is being monitored by the IAEA.
A senior diplomat close to the IAEA said the Iran had told the agency the facility was a pilot, or experimental-level, enrichment site that was not yet in operation.
The Islamic Republic insists that it has the right to the activity to generate fuel for what it says will be a nationwide chain of nuclear reactors.
But because enrichment can make both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade uranium, the international community fears Tehran will use the technology to generate the fissile material used on the tip of nuclear warheads.
The revelation further burdens the chances of progress in scheduled October 1 talks between Iran and six world powers.
At that planned meeting – the first in more than a year – the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany will be pressing Iran to scale back on its enrichment activities. But Tehran has declared that it will not bargain on enrichment.
Obama preparing announcement
A Western diplomat said US President Barack Obama was aware of the development and would make an announcement at the G-20 summit of major industrialised nations in the US city of Pittsburgh later on Friday.
The New York Times said Washington had been tracking the secret project for years and Obama decided to go public after Iran learned in recent weeks that Western intelligence agencies had penetrated the secrecy veiling the site.
Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy planned to call on Iran to let the IAEA inspect the site immediately, then Times reported from Pittsburgh.
"This second enrichment facility could be very significant since it could prove the key to approaching potential nuclear weapons capacity for Iran," said a European diplomat, who emphasized he had seen no details of the project yet.
"It's good that Iran is coming clean about it," he said, alluding to lingering suspicions - which lacked proof - that Iran harboured further undeclared nuclear facilities, "but this could prove disastrous for non-proliferation."
No details about location
The officials said that the letter contained no details about the location of the second facility, when it had started operations or the type and number of centrifuges it was running.
The government officials – one speaking from his European capital outside Vienna, the other a diplomat in Vienna from a country accredited to the IAEA – demanded anonymity Friday because their information was confidential. One said he had seen the letter. The other told the AP that he had been informed about it by a UN official who had seen it.
While Iran's mainstay P-1 centrifuge is a decades-old model based on Chinese technology, it has begun experimenting with state-of-the art prototypes that enrich more quickly and efficiently than its old model.
UN officials familiar with the IAEA's attempts to monitor and probe Iran's nuclear activities have previously told the AP that they suspected Iran might be running undeclared enrichment plants.
The existence of a secret Iranian enrichment program built on black market technology was revealed seven years ago. Since then the country has continued to expand the program with only a few interruptions as it works toward its aspirations of a 50,000-centrifuge enrichment facility at the southern city of Natanz.
The last IAEA report on Iran in August said Iran had set up more than 8,000 centrifuges to churn out enriched uranium at the cavernous underground Natanz facility, although the report said that only about 4,600 of those were fully active.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report
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Statement from state Rep. Bill Sowerby (D-Clinton Township) on his vote against a proposal to repeal prevailing wage:
LANSING — Today, the House of Representatives voted on a proposal to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law, which ensured that workers on state projects were paid a fair wage. The proposal passed by a vote of 56-53. In response, state Rep. Bill Sowerby (D-Clinton Township) issued the following statement:
“Michigan is already facing a skilled labor shortage, which makes repealing prevailing wage all the more costly and irresponsible. I have heard multiple times in committee and in the legislature that we need more students going into Career Tech Education (CTE). CTE jobs provide a great career and living wage, but by repealing prevailing wage we will be greatly discouraging students from entering this field. Working families cannot get ahead if they’re unable to pay their bills or save for a secure retirement. Our prevailing wage law has protected Michigan from greedy contractors set on importing cheap labor from out of state for more than 50 years. Today's misguided repeal hurts women and men employed in skilled trades, by slashing their paychecks and robbing them of their economic freedom. But it also hurts our state when taxpayers are forced to pay twice for low-quality work. You get what you pay for and this vote will produce sub-standard work. Today’s vote does nothing more than tell these skilled workers that a majority of Michigan lawmakers think they make too much money and their skills mean nothing. Michigan, and its families, deserve better, and that’s why I voted no today.”
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The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
We proudly offer more New England art news and reviews than anyone else.
Contact our researchers.
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New England Art Awards
The winners of the 2009 New England Art Awards will be announced at the New England Art Awards Ball at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Burren in Somerville, Massachusetts. And you are invited. Details here.
“Rembrandt’s People,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Oct. 10, 2009, to Jan. 24, 2010.
Brian Knep “Exempla,” Tufts, Sept. 10 to Nov. 15, 2009. Also Brain Knep, Rotenberg Gallery, Nov. 19 to Dec. 23, 2009.
“Drawings That Work: 21st Drawing Show,” Boston Center for the Arts, Sept. 11 to Oct. 25, 2009.
Kirsten Hassenfeld, Brown’s Bell Gallery, Aug. 29 to Nov. 1, 2009. Also at Cade Tompkins Editions/Projects, Sept. 25 to Nov. 14, 2009.
“First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection,” Boston College’s McMullen Museum, Sept. 5 to Dec. 13, 2009.
Alec Soth “Dog Days Bogota,” Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Sept. 9 to Nov. 28, 2009.
“Sacred Monsters: Everyday Animism in Contemporary Japanese Art and Anime,” Tufts, Sept. 10 to Nov. 22, 2009.
“The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480 – 1650,” RISD Museum, Sept. 18, 2009, to Jan. 3, 2010.
“Pixilerations [V.6]: New Media Art,” RISD and 5 Traverse, Sept. 24 to Oct. 10, 2009.
“Platform 1: Andrew Mowbray,” DeCordova, Sept. 26, 2009, to Jan. 3, 2010.
“Work by Women Billboard,” Hive Archive, October 2009 to June 2010.
“Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow,” Currier Museum of Art, Oct. 10, 2009, to Jan. 3, 2010.
“Act Up New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993,” Harvard’s Carpenter Center, Oct. 15 to Dec. 24, 2009.
“Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel,” Peabody Essex Museum, Oct. 17, 2009, to Feb. 7, 2010.
“Secrets of the Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC,” MFA, Oct. 18, 2009, to May 16 (originally was Jan. 10), 2010.
“Focus on Four: Rhode Island Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier, Lewis Hine, Charlotte Estey and Aaron Siskind,” Newport Art Museum, Oct. 24, 2009, to Jan. 24, 2010.
“Harry Potter: The Exhibition,” Museum of Science, opens Oct. 25, 2009.
Iron Guild’s Halloween Iron Pour, Steel Yard, Oct. 30, 2009.
“Krysztof Wodiczko: The Veterans Project,” ICA, Nov. 4, 2009, to March 7, 2010.
Gerry Bergstein & Henry Schwartz; David Aronson, Boston Expressionists at Danforth Museum, Nov. 18, 2009, to March 14, 2010.
“Albrecht Durer: Virtuoso Printmaker,” 45 prints from MFA collection, MFA, Nov. 21, 2009, to July 3, 2010.
“Harry Callahan: American Photographer,” MFA, Nov. 21, 2009, to July 3, 2010.
“Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books,” Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Nov. 24, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010.
“Andy Warhol: A Recent Acquisition Exhibition,” Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Dec. 9, 2009, to Jan. 8, 2010.
“Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope,” Farnsworth Art Museum, June 20 to Oct. 25, 2009.
“Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs,” MFA, July 1, 2009, to Feb. 21, 2010.
“Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contempraries” and “Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints,” MFA, May 30 to Nov. 2, 2009.
Fawcett’s Antique Toy & Art Museum, Waldoboro, Maine, ongoing.
Order photos by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research of the Honk Parade, Boston Caribbean Carnival (above), Salem’s Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, Bread and Puppet Theater, St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester, and more.
Grants and competitions
Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant Programs.
Massachusetts Cultural Council.
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grants, deadlines: April 1 and Oct. 1.
Vermont Arts Council: artist development grants, deadline: 60 days prior to activity.
Yokelism
Yokelist Manifesto Number 1: Boston lacks alternative spaces?
Yokelism at the 2008 Boston Art Awards.
Yokelist Manifesto Number 2: Montreal case study.
Yokelist Manifesto Number 3: Hire locally.
Yokelist Manifesto Number 4: We need coverage of our living artists.
Yokelist Manifesto Number 5: We need local retrospectives.
Yokelism update: Coverage of our living artists: Sebastian Smee responds.
Yokelism update: Dangers of Provincialism.
Yokelism update: Re: Dangers of Provincialism.
Yokelist Manifesto Number 6: Could the CIA help?
Yokelism at the 2009 New England Art Awards.
New England treasures
Fawcett’s Antique Toy & Art Museum, Waldoboro, Maine.
Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Seeing art for free
Always free:
Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
AS220, Providence, Rhode Island.
Boston Athenaeum.
Boston Center for the Arts.
Boston College's McMullen Museum.
Brown University's Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Harvard’s Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
MassArt Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
MIT's List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts.
Musee Patamecanique, Bristol, Rhode Island.
National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.
Simmons College's Trustman Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Most commercial galleries are also always free.
Sometimes free:
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, daily from Nov. 1 to May 31.
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, after 4:30 p.m. everyday (but they're only open until 5 p.m.).
Harvard's Peabody Museum, Cambridge, free to Massachusetts residents from 9 a.m. to noon every Sunday, and from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays from September to May.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 5 to 8 p.m. every Thursday; free to families (meaning children accompanied by as many as two adults) the last Saturday of each month.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4 to 9:45 p.m. Wednesdays (but charge for special exhibitions).
New Bedford Art Museum, 5 to 9 p.m. second Thursday of each month. Also 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays "donate what you can."
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Thursdays and the last weekend of each month.
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, 5 to 9 p.m. Fridays.
RISD Museum, Providence, 12 to 1:30 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays, 5 to 9 p.m. third Thursday of each month, all day of the last Saturday of each month.
Worcester Art Museum, 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays.
Note: Public libraries often have free passes to museums.
Additional sites of New England inquiry
Zoom, Cambridge.
Vermont Art Zine, Vermont.
Truth and Beauty, Beverly, Mass.
Tiny Showcase, Providence.
The Steel Yard Blog, Providence.
Speak Clearly, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Animation crew blog, Boston.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island.
Portland Museum of Art blog, Maine.
Our RISD, Providence.
North Shore Art Throb, greater Boston.
New Urban Arts, Providence.
New Bodgea, Boston, etc.
My Love for You Is a Stampede of Horses, Boston and national.
Modern Kicks, undisclosed location in southern New England.
Mass MoCA Blog, western Massachusetts.
Making the Art Seen, Malden, Mass.
Maine College of Art, Maine.
Maine Arts Commission, Maine.
Maine Art Scene, Maine.
Keepers of Tradition, Massachusetts.
Just Looking, Maine.
The Hub Review, Boston.
HubArts, Boston.
The Girl in the Green Dress, Boston.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet, New Hampshire.
Exhibitionist, Boston.
Cultural Productions, greater Boston.
Connecticut Art Scene, Connecticut.
Leslie K. Brown, Boston.
Boston Photography Focus, Boston.
Blog Addison, greater Boston.
Big Red & Shiny, Boston.
The Big Picture, Boston.
The Biggest Little, Providence.
The Berkshire Review, western Massachusetts.
Berkshire Fine Arts, western Massachusetts.
The Arts Fuse, Massachusetts.
Artsake, Massachusetts.
Art in Ruins, Providence.
Art Espirit, New Hampshire.
Artblog.net, Boston.
New media investigations
The Second Life Herald
Eyebeam's reBlog
"The Apartment at the Mall"
“The Apartment at the Mall,” the project in which Michael Townsend and seven collaborators created a secret apartment (pictured above) in neglected storage space in the parking garage at Providence Place mall over the past four years, became publicly known only after mall security stopped Townsend as he was leaving the makeshift squat on Sept. 26.
It was one of the most audacious and awesome underground art projects Rhode Island has seen — part MacGyver, part Robin Hood, part Bugs Bunny, part juvenile delinquent, and part genius philosophical joke. In a brilliant act of humorous intellectual jujitsu, they turned the weight of Providence Place, a major symbol of consumerism and redevelopment, back on itself to reconsider the place of malls and real-estate development in our communities. At the same time, the secret apartment clubhouse was a thrilling reminder of how Providence remains an inventive and surprising magical artistic place.
At its heart, the project is part of a body of local art examining and critiquing Providence’s development boom. As I reported this week, Townsend told me:
“With the mall in our neighborhood, there started to be in Providence a culture of trying to make sure that every square foot was being utilized to the best of its abilities.”
So in October 2003, Townsend says, he, Adriana Yoto, his wife and collaborator, and two friends decided to get to know their neighbor better — by spending a week without leaving the mall. Each had $20, though one guy quickly lost his bill. They dressed up to fit in. They spent hours examining every object in stores. They say some slept in a column in the garage and some slept in a forgotten room, which Townsend had spotted while the shopping center, which opened in 1999, was being erected.
“Going into the fourth day, we had a meeting at Borders,” Townsend says. “We said, ‘You know what, we could be here forever.’ ”
“And nobody would care,” Yoto adds.
“The word ‘micro-development’ came up,” Townsend says. “We said, ‘You know what? We have a responsibility to come back and micro-develop that space and make a home.’”
“Because,” Yoto says, “it was grossly underutilized space in a very prime real estate location downtown.”
Read the rest here.
The Providence Journal broke the story and has excellent reports here, here and here.
Check out this video of the artists moving furniture into the mall apartment. The pièce de résistance was the 8-foot-tall china hutch (pictured below).
Adriana Yoto has been conducting mall-related studies.
Michael Townsend is known for temporary public tape art murals and a sculptural installation secreted inside a tunnel near the Rhode Island State House that featured caskets suspended over water and flying and standing figures.
Additional examples of local art examining and critiquing Providence’s development boom include Jean Cozzens and Andrew Oesch’s “Magic City Repairs” at Stairwell Gallery in June and Brian Chippendale’s “Eagle Square” poster (reproduced here) and “Home on the Run” installation in the “Wunderground” exhibition at the RISD Museum last year. It’s also worth checking out “You Must Be This Tall,” a documentary film about the defunct Rocky Point amusement park (which JL wrote about here), and “Art in Ruins,” a website that examines the architecture and redevelopment of Providence.
For discussion of Providence Place mall see here, here and here.
posted by Greg Cook at 8:07 AM
MALL video footage:
http://tophot-video.com/vid.php?v=Mall
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Brandeis student laments: “I was hugely proud to be afforded the opportunity to graduate with a degree that would help me get into graduate school or give me a leg up while finding a job. Now when I tell people I go to Brandeis, their only response is, ‘Oh, the school that wanted to close the Rose Art Museum?’”
Stephen Huneck of Vermont, famed for his folksy carvings of dogs, took his own life on Jan. 7. He was apparently despondent over having to lay off most of his employees because his art business was hurting.
NH native Colin Ford makes surreal art from live fish tank creatures in Miami.
Boston museum construction projects go green.
New Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art proposed.
Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford relaunches its Matrix contemporary art program. Also unveils the reinstallation of its superb collection of Hudson River School paintings.
Amazing bubble-maker Keith Michael Johnson of Warwick, RI, recalls his beginnings: “There were very few people working with serious bubbles at the time. Just a couple of people.”
RI marine salvage Captain Ed Hughes’s brush with cancer inspires him to take up nature photography: "Animals don't run away from me. They should. But they don't. They let me get close."
Joyce Amend of York, Maine, makes sailors’ valentines.
Will Sofrin of RI is making prints of classic Nathanael Green Herreshoff sailing yacht designs.
Pam Sawyer of Somersworth, NH, honors local families of Iraq and Afghanistan war dead with needlepoint memorials.
Essex sculptor Chris Williams’s 1,800-pound bronze rhino wanders around town.
Arshile Gorky was in Providence, then taught Mark Rothko in Boston.
“NEH chief preaches the art of manners.”
Previously in the Journal
“¡Sensacional!” at MassArt
Claire Beckett
Kerry Stuart Coppin
Underground Providence
Nick Cave at RISD
Honk Parade
Nick Cave speaks at RISD Wednesday
“Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis” at MFA
Addison Gallery expansion
Darger-ism
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research's RSS feed.
Talks from our archives
Lynda Barry, Oct. 2, 2008.
Eleanor Callahan and Barbara, Nov. 11, 2008.
Nick Cave, Oct. 8, 2007.
Brian Chippendale, May 16, 2008, part one and two.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Sept. 23, 2008.
Chuck Close, Nov. 1, 2007.
Gregory Crewdson, Oct. 29, 2008.
Lynda Hartigan of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, July 16, 2008.
Anish Kapoor, May 27, 2008.
Dennis Kois, director of DeCordova Museum, June 9, 2008.
Ernest Morin, July 21, 2008.
Dan Moynihan, Brookline cartoonist and illustrator Oct. 8, 2009.
Damián Ortega, Sept. 15,2009.
Gary Panter, April 11, 2008, and Sept. 20, 2006.
Martha Rosler, Nov. 21, 2008.
Stefan Sagmeister, April 25, 2008.
Neil Salley of the Musée Patamécanique in Bristol, Rhode Island, Aug. 16, 2007.
Jon Sarkin, July 31, 2008.
Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater (pictured above), Aug. 12, 2008, part one, two and three; Jan 23, 2008, part one and two.
Richard Serra, June 1, 2008.
Rachel Whiteread, Oct. 14, 2008.
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Edgar Allen Beem of Yankee Magazine: "Indispensable ... Probably the best regional art site in the country."
Art Connect: “Cook covers so much ground that you get the feeling that he must be aware of everything that goes on in the New England art scene.”
Wikipedia: One of the “Notable art blogs.”
Drawn & Quarterly blog: The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research is “the best coverage of the New England area art scene out there.”
Modern Kicks: “When it comes to art in New England, the man sees everything. I don't even want to know what the mileage on his car is.”
Joel Brown of HubArts: “Cook has been a veritable Woodward and Bernstein on the Rose.”
Art Fag City: "The most detailed report [on the Rose Art Museum that] I’ve read thus far."
Online University Reviews: One of the "100 Best Scholarly Art Blogs."
Sara Agniel: “The Journal is worth adding to your regular reading list.”
Caleb Neelon: "The best regional arts news source out there."
Yankee Magazine blog: The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research is one of the "Best Art Blogs in New England."
Ethan Ham: “Excellent.”
Thomas Garvey of The Hub Review: "Thoughtful."
Geoff Edgers of the Exhibitionist: “Always compelling.”
Boston Photography Focus: “Excellent overview and coverage of the breaking gallery news since the spring as it happened.”
ArtSake: “Incisive analysis of the New England art scene.”
Modern Kicks: “Greg Cook has continued to be on top of the story.”
Anne Elizabeth Moore: “Has excellent taste, and is tracking the SHIT outta the local arts scene.”
Boston Lowbrow: "Who would've thought Cook's unrivalled thoroughness of local gallery coverage would translate so well to investigative journalism."
Newcritics: “Cook gets it right.”
Robert Castagna: Cook and The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research are the cause of, and solution to, all of Boston art criticism's problems.
Jon Petro: “Cook's review reads like a sophomoric attempt at art criticism.”
Also our favorite footnote (see 32).
Shepard Fairey admits he lied, faked evidence and destroyed evidence to conceal which Associated Press photo he, uh, appropriated for his famous Obama “Hope” poster. The AP, which has sued the RISD alum for copyright infringement, notes that “Fairey’s attorneys, led by Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University, have informed the AP that they are withdrawing.” Fairey insists that “regardless of which of the two images was used, the fair use issue should be the same.”
Wall Street Journal: “There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama "Hope" poster [by Shepard Fairey] previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists.”
Boston Greenway fails to attract people. Globe: “Call it the Emptyway.”
Egypt wants back “a bust of pyramid builder Ankhaf from the Boston Museum of Fine Art.”
World Monuments Fund warns that farm system that has survived in Hadley, Mass., since 17th century is now endangered.
Did Bostonians transplanted to California fake theft of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Renoir and Miro? San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 30: “Pebble Beach Men report art theft.” Boston Globe, Oct. 2: “Ransom asked in theft.” Monterey County Herald, Oct. 4: “Art heist puts collectors in spotlight.” San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 5: “A curious case of art theft.” San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 7: “’Art theft’ smells fishy, investigators say.” Boston Herald, Oct. 8: “Art ‘heist’ suspect: I have proof.” San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 10: “List of art stolen in Pebble Beach raises doubt.” Boston Herald, Oct. 11: “Art experts ‘smell a rat.’”
Farnsworth Museum tightens belt, despite 30 percent attendance growth.
Salary cuts for a third of US museum directors, including Gardner, MFA, and a little at ICA.
Onion: NY’s Met aims to boost attendance by “allowing patrons to touch paintings.”
Boston sculptor Matthew Hincman – of screwy park bench fame – mints his own money.
Daily Beast says Boston is third smartest city in U.S. Take that number 13 New York. The “city” of Hartford-New Haven ranks sixth. Providence is number 22.
Women to turn 41-acre oceanfront estate in York, Maine, into art colony.
Bill would create Massachusetts poet laureate.
Boston native Ann Philbin behind Hammer Museum’s “striking rise.”
Portsmouth unveils statue honoring firefighters.
Massachusetts artist Mikyoung Kim fills Washington, D.C., bridge tower with kaleidoscope.
City finally finds a use for art: “Boston recruits local artists to help ward off graffiti.” (By the bye: If you use the cliche “outside the box” you are by definition thinking inside the box.)
Profile of Richard Silliboy, a Micmac basketmaker in Maine.
RISD dropout John Baizley makes awesome heavy metal art.
Profile of Gallery XIV’s Will Kerr.
Disney animator Lon Smart, who grew up in East Providence, speaks to students in Warwick, R.I.
Profile of artist, designer and MIT teacher Richard Filipowski, who died last November.
People mad about removal of mural from old Verizon building in Boston.
New England carpenters union installs the “highest-resolution transparent LED display in the world” on its Carpenters Center in South Boston. (Via Universal Hub.)
New Greater Boston Food Bank building facade includes hidden picture.
Students paint murals across front of burned Boston restaurants. (Via Universal Hub.)
Providence’s downtown building boom ends with a whimper.
RISD is one of the most dang neighborly schools in the U.S., according to some guy.
Mystic Seaport mills “centuries-old live oaks” from Texas to restore 1841 whaling ship.
Maine furniture craftsman Wayne Hall honored by Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
Jimmy Sampas of Holliston produces film about his uncle Jack Kerouac.
Exhibit of Mexican Christian art, organized by Michael Komanecky, currently interim director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, opens in San Antonio.
Julie Feingold of Harwich makes “Lost Heroes Art Quilt,” honoring post 9-11 military dead.
David Brigham, former director of Worcester Art Museum, named president of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Harvard acquires John Updike archives.
Giant puppets rampage in Berlin celebration of the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall.
Another Case Western prof makes crazy Jackson Pollock claims. Previously.
Norman Rockwell Museum launches award to honor artists … who have served on its board.
Brown U is Hogwarts for Harry Potter’s Emma Watson.
Providence artist/rocker Brian Chippendale on his artwork for Lightning Bolt’s new album: “I’m actually very excited about the artwork for this one. I think it’s the best stuff I’ve ever done for one of the records. My stuff tends to be really full of color, no white space at all, but the new one has a lot of white space, which makes it feel really energized. I’ve been kind of getting into white space suddenly, out of the blue.”
Boston Police sketch artist Robert Neville: “Usually when you’re nearing the end, that’s when you start to realize you’ve really hit a chord. … You know when they react they’re not just saying it to make you feel good because you’re the artist. You did a good job. You start to realize, ‘That’s the guy .’”
Harvard Book Store getting magic book making machine that will allow it to conjure up books on demand.
Boston Dynamics, the folks behind the super creepy/amazing BigDog robot, to produce military robot that can leap over 25-foot obstacles and keep going.
Phil Bissell, creator of New England Patriots’ logo “Pat Patriot,” says, "People just like Pat. They seem to know this guy is getting down to business. He's going to give it all. Flying Elvis [the newish Patriots logo] is just going around the field pointing to the sky. It just isn't the same."
South End Boston photographer Peter Urban dies at age 61.
Concord tries to save house built in 1780s by town’s first freed slave.
Harvard prof exercises his right to have cow at his retirement party.
Boston Museum School alum David Lynch has an art show.
Mass. Governor Deval Patrick: "The digital gaming industry is on fire in Massachusetts - one of the fastest growing sectors in technology and entertainment in the country.” Also, gaming site says: “Video gaming as we know it today can trace its birthplace to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
Tours of Gloucester City Hall's Depression-era Works Progress Administration murals.
Portland artist Joe Kievitt installs glass tile mural at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts.
RI sculptor Robin Mandel exhibits kinetic works in Pennsylvania.
Mary McFadden, whose fashion designs are on view at MassArt, interviewed.
MFA’s “World of the Pharaohs” Egyptian artifacts go on view at Arkansas Art Center.
Illustrator Jessica Shea opens art gallery in Georgetown.
Jim Drain, former Providence Fort Thunderite, exhibits at UTexas.
UMass Amherst shows off its gift of Warhol photos.
Florence Griswold Museum to present “Wee Faerie Village.”
“Three sculptures have been stolen and a sculpted bench badly damaged while on display as part of the Prescott Park New Hampshire Sculpture in the Park exhibition.”
Former RISD Provost Jay Coogan hired as president of Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Farnsworth Museum launches $12 million campaign to remember Andrew Wyeth – in particular to create an endowment to fund maintenance and operations of its four Wyeth-related properties.
Shep Abbott’s “String Castle Theory” in Gloucester’s Dogtown.
Piscataqua Fine Arts closes in Portsmouth, opens in Gloucester.
Peter Diepenbrock of Jamestown, RI, unveils sculpture at URI.
Peggy Fogelman named chairman of education at NY’s Met, leaving her post as director of education and interpretation Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum.
Mass. artist Matt Charros walking 3,444 miles across U.S. to raise awareness about disease affecting his sister, multiple sclerosis.
Art association in Newfields, NH, to turn old post office into community art center.
Boston Comics Roundtable is part of a “a thriving comic book culture in Somerville and throughout greater Boston. No longer ‘underground,’ it's definitely a sub-culture that's rapidly breaching the boundaries of pop culture.”
New Bedford community cultural collaborative AHA! marks 10th anniversary of promoting arts there.
Brian Fox of Somerset, Mass., paints baseball stars at All Star Game.
Painting stolen in Florida, recovered in New Hampshire after it was discovered for sale on Craigslist.
Vermont judge orders $100,000 restitution for 23 metal sculptures stolen from artists studio.
Cambridge artist Doug Kornfeld installs boring but big stick-figure sculpture at DeCordova. Coincidentally Kornfeld installs a 23-foot-tall stainless steel stick-figure outside Indiana State University’s new Student Recreation Center.
New book about late decoy carver George H. Boyd of Seabrook, N.H.
“Cash-strapped Boston zoo may be forced to close doors, euthanize animals.”
Yale fights for ownership of Van Gogh’s “Night Café” with great-grandson of Russian guy who had it before Bolshevik government “nationalized” his collection.
Patty Martucci began work as program director in May at the newly renovated Warwick Museum of Art in R.I.
New PhotoPlace gallery opens at Vermont Photography Workplace in Middlebury.
Hive gallery opens in Rockport, MA, with show of robots.
Somerville artist David Omar White, who painted the murals at Casablanca Restaurant in Cambridge, dies at 82.
Barre, Vermont, quarried granite used nation-wide, while at home locals used it to erect monuments to their loved ones.
MassArt students design, build bus shelter for disabled kids of Boston school.
Vermont Arts Council tries to promote art by giving out 9,500 wood puzzle pieces and 51,000 paper puzzle pieces for people to decorate.
Remembering artist Sarah Wyman Whitman of Beverly, Mass., a pal of James, Lowell, Sarah Orne Jewett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Eliot Norton and Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Woburn artist Gina Johnson gives portraits of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to their families.
Jamie Wyeth depicts seven deadly sins, using sea gulls.
Preservation society documenting history of mills in Warren, R.I.
Damon Rich’s map of New York foreclosures, which began its life at MIT, opens at Queens Museum of Art after MIT curator Larissa Harris gets a job there.
New Walker curator studied at Bates and Williams College, then was a fellow at Harvard.
Bay State Banner suspends publication.
Neko Case records on eight pianos at her Vermont farm.
Vermont “author-goat farmer's memoir a surprise delight.”
Hubub in Portland over “very weak, very amateurish piece of sculpture” commissioned by Portland Sea Dogs owner.
Plan to revitalize Pittsfield with a new carousel attracts dozens of volunteer carousel animal carvers.
Mainers Josh Farr and Mikhela Stinson build “Palace” of stones and junk along Burlington, Vermont’s shore of Lake Champlain. Also people apparently are stacking stones all across New England.
Mysterious petroglyphs appear in riverside rocks of Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Ruthie Tredwell founds Portsmouth Museum of Art.
Connecticut governor proposes $30 million in cuts to state arts and tourism grants over the next two fiscal years.
Wadsworth Atheneum director Chick Austin made awesome avant-garde art happen in Hartford during the Great Depression. May this be a lesson to you no good lazy depressed layabouts.
Worcester Art Museum plans to convert existing studio into a 130-seat public lecture hall, improve access to the lobby and make upgrades to the museum café with help from $310,000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund.
Everybody in North Adams Loves Mass MoCA, except for Vinny Patel, the owner of Corner Market convenience store: “I’m expecting more, put it that way.”
Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., turns 40.
Official portrait of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by New Hampshire artist Richard Whitney unveiled at State House. Says Mitt: “You'll note that one thing this painting has in common with real life is that, in the painting, my hair doesn't move either.”
Over the hill Globe columnist Sam Allis discovers – OMG – art in Boston’s Jamaica Plain. Owner and curator Brent “Refsland, tall and 27, was holding the fort, a straw pork pie hat on his head from the local funky shop, Salamagundi. You assume when you meet him that he’s hopped up on something because of the energy he emits and the machine gun bursts in which he speaks. Maybe some Ritalin would help this overactive child, I say to myself.” Bingo!
Paint Pens in Purses transforms vacant Allston storefronts.
Late conceptual artist David Ireland lives on in his curious Edward E. Elson artist-in-residence apartment at Andover’s Addison Gallery.
Providence Mayor David Cicilline unveils plans to boost city’s arts.
Commercial photographer Clint Clemens uses 3D imaging to help rebuild his historic Newport firehouse.
Photos stolen from Concord, New Hampshire, exhibit.
Brockton artist Fritz Ducheine's paintings about violence in society featured at Boston’s National Center of Afro-American Artists.
Did you know that Ben Shattuck’s show at 5 Traverse in Providence last year “sold out - in an hour”? The painter recalls thinking: “"Good Lord, maybe I'm onto something.”
“Retirement from a life in banking prompts sculptor Claude O’Donnell of Holden [Maine] to unleash the creative hippie hidden in the gray flannel suit.”
Sculptural bust of Broadway musical songwriter – and Providence native – George M. Cohan unveiled in Providence.
First-grader Paul Taraszuk of Georgetown, Mass., is the awesomest drawer of ideal schools, according to the Massachusetts School Building Authority.
Needham artist Rachel Perry Welty’s Facebook performance included in New Haven exhibit of art inspired by the rapacious social-networking site TM.
Architect magazine names Boston’s William Rawn Associates the top architectural firm in the country.
Burlington hospital unveils Kat Clear's 40-foot-tall sculpture “Fabric of Life" depicting sewing machine and quilt.
Boston native Sophie Matisse – granddaughter of thee Matisse – makes “five uniquely painted chess sets.”
Real Art Ways commissions four public sculpture projects for Hartford.
They love the ICA’s Tara Donovan show in Des Moines.
The Davis Square Tile Project is trying to track down the kids who painted the tiles in the Davis Square T station back in the late 1970s “to better understand the history of Somerville.”
Glastonbury, Connecticut, artist Harry White collages landscape scenes from the flowers in his garden.
New Philadelphia Museum of Art director Timothy Rub got his start with a bachelor’s degree in art history from Vermont’s Middlebury College.
“Some airports have removed public art for advertising,” though report provides no details.
Massachusetts artist George Sherwood’s “Orchid” is one of 16 pieces of art scattered in the heart of Albany, for the latest edition of the city’s “Sculpture in the Streets” series.
Did you know Jonathan Lethem has a part-time residence in Maine?
Elephants paint at Providence zoo. Previously: Gorilla art at Boston zoo. Also, Rhode Island dog exhibits his paintings: “I just decided to put some paint on his tail and paper beneath it. I was amazed with what I saw – beautiful configurations.”
Nantucket antiques dealer David L. Place charged by Feds with illegally importing and illegally trafficking in sperm whale teeth. Previously: Nantucket scrimshaw artist charged with dealing in black market whale teeth.
Renegade knitters “tag” Boston bike rack.
Brown University breaks ground on new arts center in Providence.
Rockporter Erik Ronnberg Jr.’s model of a factory trawler to be featured in Smithsonian’s “On the Water: Stories from Maritime America” exhibit.
Federal judge rules that Kokoschka painting – allegedly sold under duress in Nazi-occupied 1939 Vienna – legally belongs to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Because, for one, “the three-year statue of limitations period on such claims has passed.”
Addison Gallery staff begins planning to move back into the renovated and expanded building – which is expected to reopen in spring 2010.
Arson destroys Maine topless coffee shop.
Portland introduced art tax increment financing in November 2009. It taxes construction in the city’s arts district, raising some $50,000 to date.
Profile of John Maeda after his first year as president of RISD.
A visit to New England Sculpture Service in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the folks who repair the “Make Way for Ducklings” statues at Boston’s Public Garden when they are damaged.
Oliver Brothers of Boston restores 65 artworks damaged in fire at Yaddo more than a year ago.
A video visit with Jamie Wyeth at Tenants Harbor, Maine, on the occasion of his new show of paintings at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland: “Maine ... it's really of no fault of Maine, but it has produced more bad art than any state in the union. Maine is very emblematic. But what interests me is to go deeper, to go beyond cuteness and prettiness, to get to the angst, of which there is a lot in Maine.”
AS220 in Providence, with help from federal stimulus money, offers 32 art jobs for young people.
C.D. Wright of Barrington, Rhode Island, wins $50,000 (a bit less in U.S. dollars) Griffin Prize for poetry. The Brown English professor won the $500,000 MacArthur “genius” grant in 2004.
Massachusetts-born artist Dan Nelson follows up his book “All Known Metal Bands” with project to raise $1 million. So far he’s collected $60.
“For the first time in its history, Mass MoCA is close to breaking even without a desperate round of fund-raising.”
Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island, goes on sale. It was a “birthing ground” for the Newport Jazz Festival. Also maybe haunted. Yours for $7.2 million.
Zsuzsanna Szegedi, artist in residence at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts: “"I wasn't planning to paint this many trees. But every painting gave me a new idea for the next one. Trees are easy to work with. They don't talk back.”
Documentary on John Marin to begin filming in Maine.
Derrick Cartwright, former director of the Hood Museum in Hanover, New Hamsphire, to lead Seattle Art Museum.
Six public art projects in Maine funded by $60,755 from the Maine Arts Commission – thanks to the Harry Faust Art Fund.
Public art transforms Boston street.
Boston’s Bren Batclan to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. This follows reports that he leaves his paintings around San Francisco for Free: “"The economy is so bad now. People are losing their jobs, so this is how I can help.” Also Batclan planned “to leave 50 paintings of colorful creatures in random spots around [Chicago] with notes saying they're free.”
Profile of Michelle Wojcik, owner of Galeria Cubana in Boston and Provincetown.
Polaroid lovers try to revive its instant film.
Lego debuts Frank Lloyd Wright building sets. Build your very own Falling Water.
MFA’s Monets in Australia: “Monet on the walls is money in the bank.”
Cambridge psychiatrist Karen Norberg “knits anatomically correct woolly brain.”
Sanford Robinson Gifford’s 1859 painting of “Mount Mansfield, Vermont” is “one of two works recently sold by the National Academy, sparking a controversy in the art world.”
Martin Luther King Jr. monument project in Boston stalled: “Almost nothing has been done.”
“By most accounts, the history of modern camouflage begins with Alfred Thayer, a prominent Boston artist.”
Andrew Wyeth of Maine and Pennsylvania dies at 91.
Art student Myja A. Parviainen killed by wrong-way driver on Route 495 in Massachusetts.
Hopkinton artist Michael Alfano sculpts Barack Obama: "Like Obama, Alfano was not the most likely candidate for success in his chosen career.”
“Local doctor uses Clark Art Institute as part of training for med students.”
“Somerville's first community arts center at the final stretch.”
Sculptor Adio diBiccari of Arlington and Chelmsford dies at 94.
Steve Carell buys Marshfield general store.
“Rhode Island Leads US Into Deep Recession.”
“Disney Is No Mickey Mouse Figure in the World of Art.”
“New safety law may prohibit children under 12 from libraries – or make many books illegal.”
Retired Falmouth attorney Robert R. Mardirosian sentenced to 7 years in prison plus $100,000 fine following conviction “in a case arising from the theft of a Cezanne and other pieces of art from a Stockbridge home in 1978 – “the largest burglary from a private residence in Massachusetts history.”
“LeWitt exhibit prompts 50 percent attendance spike” at Mass MoCA.
“Roger Mandle’s journey from RISD to Qatar.”
Maine artist T. Allen Lawson paints White House Christmas card. “He doesn't get paid for the work, and the White House gets to keep the original. But Lawson figures that's OK.”
Major profile of Gloucester’s Jon Sarkin in New Jersey’s Star Ledger. Also interview of the “Medical Mystery and Artist Savant” in Vanity Fair.
Cheryl Brutvan, formerly of MFA, arrives in Florida to be curator at Norton Museum.
Vermont cartoonist Jason Lutes, creator of “Berlin,” interviewed.
RISD blogger-in-chief John Maeda profiled. Again.
Dorchester artist Greg Rogers paints with his feet.
Somerville cartoonist Tim Fish, creator of “Cavalcade of Boys,” interviewed.
Former Salem News cartoonist Scott Allie now edits comics for Dark Horse.
Exhibit by self-taught artist Joseph Sorel, a Providence native who “really began to explore art in earnest when he was incarcerated for about seven years following his time in the service during the Vietnam War.”
Artists fight for the future of Piano Factory gallery in Boston.
OCD therapy fuels art of Jeffrey Sparr of Pawtucket.
Central Maine art galleries begin collaborative promotion.
Providence Journal to sell its downtown home.
Vermont wildlife painter John C. Pitcher exhibits in Manchester, Vermont.
“Artists answer the call for portraits of pets that capture quirks and charm.”
Newburyport artist fashions glass fish.
Ethan Bond-Watts of Burlington creates glass sculpture for University of Vermont center.
News flash: Women can tattoo too.
Warren M. Robbins, Worcester-born collector of African art, dies.
“Steven Wright Named First Inductee of Boston Comedy Hall of Fame.”
Boston City Hall declared ugliest building in the world.
Aubrey Beardsley illustration “recently discovered hanging on a bathroom wall in a Boston-area home” sets auction record.
Boston’s “WGBH files suit over repairs for video wall.”
Out of Town News in Harvard Square to close.
“Attendance numbers for the Nasher Museum of Art's 'El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III' did not meet an ambitious goal set one year ago. … The show also appeared at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it also fell approximately 30,000 visitors short of its target.” And the Nasher may have to cut costs as a result.
Boston gun-violence memorial bus “may be headed for scrap yard.”
Was Boston Globe’s “g” logo swiped from Griffin Museum?
Minneapolis Institute of Arts hires MFA Boston's Thomas Rassieur as its new prints and drawings curator.
William Rudolph will become curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum in January after four years as the Dallas Museum of Art’s associate curator of American art.
Farnsworth Art Museum Director Lora Urbanelli leaves.
London Independent: Boston MFA Director Malcolm Rogers is “the maverick with the Midas touch.”
“A federal appeals panel ruled … that a painting owned by a German baroness that long hung on her walls in Rhode Island had, in effect, been stolen from a Jewish art collector during the Holocaust.”
What was the art project that a UMaine senior did to collect food and raise money for needy? He “spent 19 hours riding a seesaw on the Campus Green last week dressed as Marie Antoinette. … While Berry planned for a 24-hour event, the cold and fatigue convinced him to end it after 19 hours.”
Joe Cote, whose cartoons appeared in the Fitchburg Sentinel and Townsend Common, has died.
Marylin Hafner of Cambridge, who illustrated more than 100 children’s books as well as the comic strip “Molly and Emmett” for Lady Bug magazine and later Cricket magazine, has died after being hit by car.
Late Brown U prof Hugh Townley remembered in “The Wizard with Wood” exhibit at Wheaton College.
“Movies on Exchange Street” moves to Portland Museum of Art.
“The Vermont Arts Council has declared 20 artists finalists to present proposals in January to take part in 'Art in Action: Shaping Vermont’s Future Through Art.' This art project will fund work to reflect and respond to issues and challenges facing Vermont.”
New Hampshire cartoonists profiled.
New clues on masterpieces stolen from Boston’s Gardner Museum in 1990? ‘In ‘The Gardner Heist,’ which is to be published in February, author Ulrich Boser posits that the art may be closer at hand – as he puts it, in a retired crook’s beach house in Marshfield or Plymouth, a storage shed in Brockton, or a farm building in western Massachusetts.”
“Defy Shepard Fairey.”
Slovak artist’s interactive sound installation featured in Providence.
Bangor unveils steel deer sculpture by New Yorker Wendy Klemperer.
Public art project? Ballot measure that would have named San Francisco sewer plant after George W. Bush fails.
“Frank Cieciorka, a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was a model for the New Left’s most ubiquitous emblem, died on Monday at his home in Alderpoint, Calif. He was 69.”
Suffolk University "College Republicans come under fire with 'racist' [anti-Obama] flyer"
"The economy's swoon and Wall Street's woes are taking a particularly specific and tough toll on art museums."
Meetings on Art Institute of Boston’s move from Boston’s Kenmore Square to Cambridge’s Porter Square.
Shepard Fairey, formerly of Providence, posters Cambridge and San Francisco.
Providence Phoenix celebrates 30th anniversary.
Jaime Gili, a Venezuela-born artist living in London, picked to public-artify South Portland, ME, gas tanks.
Portland’s mad toymaker Randy Regier wins one of four $13,000 Maine Arts Commission 2009 Artists’ Fellowship Awards.
“[Worcester] 13-year-old Keenan Cassidy’s edgy style earns him praise — and a solo show opening Sat.”
Edgar Allen Beem: “I'd put my money on Lauren Fensterstock [of Portland, ME] to make it big one of these days.”
Profile of Gordon Lankton’s 2-year-old Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA.
Peter Zonis, who grew up outside Boston and studied at RISD, sells his oil pastels on NYC streets.
Profile of Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade.
Old RI State House portraits being restored.
RI sculptor Donald Gerola unveils 23-foot tall wind sculpture in Barnstable, MA.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art renovation wins architecture honor.
Tufts Daily hates on Tara Donovan: “the work does not have much significance for the viewer. And, like much of modern art, the works leave a befuddled observer desperately searching for a purpose and clinging to the belief that art must have some sort of underlying motivation.”
Pinta — the Modern and contemporary Latin American Art fair — offers $150,000 to eight museums, including the Harvard Art Museum, to encourage them to collect Latin American art.
Profile of designers Pete Cardoso and Darren Johnson’s Ghost-Town Studio in Pawtucket, RI.
17 artists picked for 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial.
Portland Museum of Art debuts blog. And new online culture mag Maine Art Scene debuts.
Interview with San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker, who got his start in Boston.
RISD grad Megan Rye paints Iraq.
Virgin Mary spotted in window of Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
New Yorker suspected of Boston graffiti held on $10,000 bail.
Paragon Carousel in Hull turns 80.
WaterFire in Providence marks 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
John Maeda, new RISD president, interviewed.
How did so many Monets end up in Boston?
Vermont’s David Macaulay has a new book, “The Way We Work,” out, and a new show at RISD.
Crafty New York artist detained at Maine-Canada border because US customs agent found her sketches suspicious.
Edgers: “Arts organizations across the state say they're bracing to hear from more donors like Nash: generous and loyal givers squeezed by the economy. To prepare, they've been making lists of potential cuts, enacting hiring freezes, and shifting reserve funds so they're better protected and easier to get at.”
Red Sox groundskeeper is still king of grass artistry. A previous report.
Where Boston artist Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons gets her rad clothes.
Francine Carraro, director of Abbe Museum in Maine, becomes head of Texas’ Grace Museum after its director moves to DeCordova in Massachusetts.
Parkour comes to BC.
Kidspace at Mass MoCA to expand.
Maine College of Art in Portland marks next step in renovations with opening of new admission center.
Umass art department marks 50th anniversary with art show.
Building the museum audience.
“Early 1900s mausoleum boom brought riches to [Vermont] granite industry.”
Exhibit features new media art that Stan VanDerBeek made at MIT in 1970s, or thereabouts.
Maine’s John Bisbee opening show in New York.
Russian cartoonist Boris Efimovich Efimov, who is featured in show at Brown, dies.
Emile Gruppé show in Rockport, Massachusetts.
“Airport 'X-ray art' courts TSA trouble”
Star Simpson a year after Logan Airport art-terrorism confusion: “I was waiting on the traffic island for the next shuttle bus to get on the subway when all of a sudden my hands were grabbed from behind me. … It turned out to be the state police. They have this magic trick where 40 of them can appear all at once out of nowhere.”
Police investigate theft from St. Johnsbury, Vermont, gallery: “someone took life size wooden sculptures of a golden retriever, a black and white cat, white Scottie dog and a black pug.”
Mass-produced moose sculptures plague Manchester, N.H.
Giant ant sculpture must be moved from Portsmouth, N.H., square.
Boston science museum curator: “Porcupines have a very pleasant and easy-going personality and are very endearing.”
“In the rural woods of Vermont, Benichou gets naked and captures double exposures of himself in a dance with nature.”
Hartford artist “said he hopes by giving his art away, people will talk about it.”
RISD grads grow art in Camden, Maine, storefront.
Patrick Dougherty sculpts stickwork “Twisted Sisters” at Wheaton College in Norton. Brown University to remove another Dougherty sculpture which was partly destroyed when an elm fell on it in March.
Boston electrical engineer creates “Latte Art” printer.
Late New Hampshire painter George de Forest Brush’s Parisians and Indians on view at National Gallery.
UMass Amherst dedicates studio arts building.
Brit romance columnist loves Providence’s WaterFire: “a living ritual in which fire, water, sound and smell all play a part to reduce you to awestruck silence and (in my case) tears of joy.”
Reviews of RISD’s new Chace Center. ProJo’s Bill Van Siclen: “the Chace Center, which officially opens on Saturday, is a gem — a compact yet powerfully sculpted building that pays its respects to its historic College Hill neighbors while remaining proudly and recognizably contemporary. It may even be the best building its designer.” Another ProJo columnist: “Moneo’s Chace Center is boxy and unimaginative.” Boston Globe: “bold and stunningly executed.”
Providence Mayor David Cicilline announces “Creative Providence” plan: “The cultural plan will focus on stimulating economic development, building links with the creative economy, developing a strong network of arts learning opportunities and enhancing the quality of life through civic engagement in the arts.”
In Indianapolis art talk, Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman “transcended the usual message on the importance of art in society to discuss basic principles he'd learned growing up and being in law enforcement. Children thrive in environments of support and love, not fear, pain or punishment. He said it is the community's responsibility to create that supportive atmosphere where the arts can play a role.”
Shepard Fairey, formerly of Providence and soon at Boston’s ICA, has show in San Francisco: “When asked why he picked the Tenderloin gallery as the appropriate venue for his work, Fairey adjusts his blue velour collar and flashes a toothy smirk, ‘because it’s punk as fuck.’”
Jane Portal named chair of MFA’s Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa department.
Providence’s Jonathan Bonner is finalist for Florida public art project.
Boston artists to redecorate city electrical boxes.
Boston native Lorraine O’Grady’s NY show reviewed.
Marian Cannon Schlesinger’s ‘1970s and ‘80s paintings of New England mill towns on view at New Hampshire Historical Society.
MassArt teacher Kianga Ford shows in Baltimore.
Brockton artist Barry Julius paints critters for Massachusetts hunting stamps.
Portland, Maine’s Strategic Productions will make you the star of your own animated cartoon.
Montpelier pulls out of proposed art park.
“AS220 teams with MIT on new Fab Lab.”
Maine’s Robert Indiana makes “Hope” icon to support Barack Obama.
The South Porland oil tanks mural project.
Curator Anja Chávez leaving Wellesley’s Davis Museum to be contemporary art curator at Syracuse University’s art galleries.
“Suffolk University filed plans with Boston officials for a new 10-story, $68 million building to house the school’s art school.”
The Onion: “National Endowment for the Arts Funds Construction of $1.3 Billion Poem.”
“A notorious international graffiti queen - accused of tagging trains and buildings from Chicago to New York to the capitals of Europe - will be hauled to the Hub to face charges she caused millions in damages to [Boston] Back Bay brownstones.”
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Director Katy Kline leaving in October. And an earlier report.
Wall Street Journal: “Cities are being swept up in a wave of inane pranks. … Prankster groups are sprouting up around the country. Boston-based Banditos Misteriosos says its mailing list has doubled to more than 2,000 people since the start of the year.”
California sculptor Tina Allen who made statue at Boston's Back Bay Station of union organizer Asa Philip Randolph has died.
Interview with New York artist Joan Snyder whose work is currently on view at Framingham’s Danforth Museum.
From critic Peter Plagens’ novel “The Art Critic”: “New York was still the default city for ambitious artists … Boston didn’t count.
Updates on Addison renovation and expansion.
Providence artist Mark Tribe’s lefty political speech reenactment series goes to LA.
Connecticut is tracking down WPA art.
Thomas Bruhn named interim director of Benton Museum of Art at University of Connecticut.
Rhode Island artists “Giftcycle” across U.S.
Paintings stolen from a Massachusetts home three decades ago ordered returned.
Vermont sculptor Charles Ginnever’s 4-ton sculpture “Protagoras” at federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, is restored.
Nave of 60-year-old New York cathedral – designed by New Hampshire native Ralph Adams Cram – reopens after cleaning and renovation.
Westport Arts Center restructures management team.
Five-year restoration of Gettysburg Civil War cyclorama mural nearly complete. It premiered at what is now Boston’s BCA in 1884 and we want it back.
Former MIT prof Wellington Reiter named next president of School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Globe: Rose Kennedy Greenway’s “Not-so-green acres.” This is a disappointment that we need to fix.
Look at this awesome paperback books chair at Providence’s Myopic Books.
Globe argues for better Boston public art. As did Thomas Garvey. Here’s our rambling take. All of this attention follows Radio Boston’s May 27 program on public art, so they deserve some credit for bringing this to people’s attention.
Profile of MFA jewelry curator Yvonne Markowitz.
Boston Museum of Science cuts staff by 10 percent. But potential $3 million budget deficit not the driving factor, president says – "Regardless of the budget, we would have made cuts.”
Police seek painting – that could be by 15th century Italian master – which was stolen from Hopedale home in 2006.
RI lawmakers mull cuts to public art program.
Hartford debuts riverfront sculpture park with Abraham Lincoln theme – thanks to more than $500,000 in donations from Lincoln Financial Group.
Globe’s Robert Campbell looks at major architectural problems at Harvard’s Busch Reisinger Museum: “Its exterior walls have deteriorated so badly that Harvard says the only way to repair them would be to take them off and start over."
Providence’s Lydia Stein plans to paint mural of Fall River’s Quequechan River with young artists.
Mass Horticultural Society lays off half staff due to financial woes.
Former Rose Museum director Joseph Ketner resigns curator job at Milwaukee Art Museum to teach at Emerson.
Caroll Spinney of Woodstock, Connecticut, on playing Big Bird: "You have to not be claustrophobic. You have to be willing to walk, not seeing anything in front of you."
DA drops “hoax device” charge against MIT student Star Simpson who freaked out Logan Airport security with her LED shirt. She apologizes and is placed on pretrial probation on disorderly person charge.
Head of planned New Center for Arts and Culture is leaving after less than 2 years.
Rose Museum director Michael Rush gives eulogy for Patrick Ireland: “Has the passing of a life ever caused more joy?”
Salem artist Terry Bastian makes sea serpent sculptures that “guzzle up hazardous waste from the ocean and soil.”
30th anniversary of heartrending news photo of father tossing infant twin out window of burning Boston building. The kid survived.
Harvard Book Store is for sale.
Boston theater companies struggling financially.
Luxury retailer Louis Boston to abandon Newbury Street in 2010.
Profile of George Kinghorn, who was recently named director of UMaine art museum.
Lynda Barry is the best artist evah.
Architectural proposals for Boston’s Dudley Square.
Proposed Roxbury art complex – including a new home for the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists – is stalled.
$1 billion in MFA art, including 30 Monets, going on exhibit in New Zealand next year.
Profile of exiting RISD chief Roger Mandle.
Credit crisis causes MFA to line up bank credit, refinance.
Edith Wharton’s Lenox estate, The Mount, facing foreclosure.
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Digital music nirvana isn't impossible, it just takes longer
An early look at on-demand streaming of your own music. The cloud buzzword hadn’t caught on back then…
The idea of being able to play your music anywhere, on any device, has become a cliche without quite coming to pass. Viewed from a distance, this looks like one of technology’s greatest failures.
If you’re acquainted with Orb, Sling Media, or MP3Tunes – all of which fulfill that promise to some degree – you’ll know how close we are to this goal. But for every breakthrough, it seems, there’s yet another setback.
Look a little closer, and we see that for the most part it’s not the fault of the basic technology components. The networks are in place, the hard drives are big enough and the processors are fast enough for “audio everywhere”. And all are fairly affordable to a critical mass of the market, although the cost we bear is undoubtedly higher than it was in the analog era.
“If I can play it to myself, then I should be stream it to myself on any of my networked devices,” says Orb Networks’ EVP of product marketing, Ian McCartney.
Politics and greed are the problems.
This week Michael Robertson’s MP3Tunes service enabled subscribers to play their iTunes music collection on their TiVo. That’s no thanks to TiVo or Apple, though. It’s possible because subscribers first upload their iPods to the “cloud”, in this case MP3Tunes’ servers, which then performs transcoding if needed.
Orb does something similar, although with a different architecture. In its case the PC punches a hole out to the network, and via Orb’s servers – which also transcode if necessary – allow any device to access the media. Another approach, taken by Sling Media and a host of consumer electronics companies, is hardware based. Like Orb, the media files remain on your own devices, rather than being cached in the cloud. Sling concentrates on TV access, but the problems all three face in getting an end-to-end approach to work as expected are very similar.
As Robertson reminded us this week, what the Orbs and MP3Tunes are doing is removing incompatibilities – TiVo doesn’t know what a WMA or an AAC file is – only to see technology vendors put new obstacles in front of us.
McCartney describes the digital download music services as “walled gardens”. If you have bought a song from iTunes or Rhapsody, and you want it then and there, you’re out of luck, he points out. While it allows a few manufacturers to sell a lot of gear – Apple being the biggest beneficiary – this isn’t the solution to the problem – it’s actually part of the problem.
He cites Sony’s recent addition of Flash to its PlayStation Portable – in a form that nobbles audio playback –
For their part, both Robertson and McCartney pitch the copyright holders – who insist on DRM in the belief that technology can solve the problem – on the basis that their revenues will increase once the frictions and incompatibilities have been eliminated. McCartney pitches Orb to rights holders on the basis they have the final decision on formats.
“We say, ‘Don’t worry about it. Encode it anyway you want – just let people get to the stream and the home processor will take care of it.”
Robertson, meanwhile, points out that MP3Tunes has published the API to its Oboe music lockers.
“TiVo is just one example of what we hope is a wide range of supported devices phones, PDAs, DVRs, Wi-Fi devices, and car stereos for example – each of which requires a different interface to work best.” It’s easier to browse your audio collection on a TiVO, he reckons, because the set top box has already bought, and the TV’s already on, and the remote is (probably) already in the hand.
No need for then for Viiv, Windows Media Center or Front Row. Unless you already have one instead of a TV.
Robertson also touts security as a feature – there’s always a permanent copy on the MP3Tunes servers.
(This raises the perennial question of whether you can really trust a start-up to secure your backup – and ensure it’s there in many years time – but we won’t go into that now.)
Network barons
But in addition to the turf wars between Sony, Microsoft and Apple, the seamless services face another threat, which McCartney says Orb takes deadly seriously. It’s the prospect of the major network owners bumping off internet services that threaten their own content services.
“Verizon’s VCast is the ultimate walled garden,” he says.
While agreeing that the phrase “network neutrality” needs to be ditched for something more attractive – “neutrality also suggests you’re hiding something,” he says – McCartney thinks the technology lobby needs to do more in Washington to preserve an even playing field. Orb will be doing what it can.
For now the rivals have more in common than they have to squabble about. McCartney paid tribute to Robertson as “fantastic, a dynamic envagelist, and far and away one of the best speakers. He says that this is what the net is for – and he’s absolutely right.”
With digital audio and video services are reported with such enthusiasm that the fine details, the kind of things that doom great waves of capital spending, are overlooked. We still have a long way to go.
Bootnote
Finally a word on cost. Much like the Emperor’s New Clothes, few have dared point out how much more digital costs, for lower quality audio.
Paul Sanders, of file-sharing ISP State 51, pointed out here last year,
“the Total Cost of Ownership of music has really gone up from when all you needed was a £100 CD player and a set of shelves from IKEA. Now your cost of enjoying music is a computer – that’s £400 to £1000 – another couple of hundred quid for your iPod, and in the UK, between £20 and £25 a month for broadband.”
We rarely think of it like this, because we assume they’re paid for. But how much more are people willing to pay? This is the cost of this friction, and we hope it’s very temporary.
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ACC 5th Anniversary Swiss
September 25, 2015 king Leave a comment
We’re turning five!
On Monday October 18, 2010, Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein helped us launch our club with a chess lecture and simultaneous exhibition. The following Monday, our first-ever club tournament started with 8 players. It’s fall 2015 now, and we’re celebrating five fantastic years of downtown Toronto chess!
Running from September 28 to November 2, the ACC 5th Anniversary Swiss is a five-round regular club tournament in three sections by CFC rating: Crown, Under-1900, and Under-1500.
Round One – September 28
Compared to the first-ever tournament at ACC, which had 8 players in the first round, 40 players play Round One in this event! And two of the original eight are still here: Alex Ferreira and Daniel Wiebe!
In the unevenly matched first round of a Swiss, it’s always fun to look for upsets: this time, Nameer Issani (2025) scores an upset win over Dave Southam (2238) in the Crown section; Tigran Ghazarian (1544) defeats Hooshang Abbarin (1670) in the U1900 section; and Jeff Pancer (1112) beats Brendan Grady (1379) in the U1500 section.
Round Two – October 5
New players have joined for Round Two, and the tournament is now over 50 strong – including five new, unrated players!
After two rounds, the leader group in each section has already gotten quite small. In the Crown (FIDE-rated) section, only two players have perfect scores: Joseph Bellissimo and Michael Humphreys.
In the U1900 section, Bob Armstrong and Kamran Amirirad are the only two with 2.0/2.
And in the U1500 section, there’s a four-way tie for the lead: Michael Saltat, Benjamin Thalman, Richard Morrison, and Chris Field have 2.0/2.
Games from Round 2
[Event "ACC 5th Anniversary Swiss"] [Site "Toronto, CAN"] [Date "5 October 2015"] [Round "2"] [White "William Li"] [Black "Nameer Issani"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1940"] [BlackElo "2025"] [ECO "C50"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6 5.d4 Bxd4 6.Nxd4 Nxd4 7.Bg5 Ne6 8.f4 d6 9.fxe5 dxe5 10.Qxd8+ Nxd8 11.Nc3 c6 12.Bxf6 gxf6 13.Rxf6 Rg8 14.Rh6 Rg7 15.Rh5 Be6 16.Rxe5 f6 17.Rxe6+ Nxe6 18.Bxe6 Ke7 19.Bf5 Rd8 20.Rd1 Rxd1+ 21.Nxd1 Kd6 22.Ne3 h5 23.Kf2 b5 24.g4 h4 25.Ng2 h3 26.Nf4 a5 27.Nxh3 a4 28.Nf4 b4 29.h4 Ke5 30.Nd3+ Kd6 31.h5 c5 32.h6 Rg8 33.h7 Rh8 34.Nf4 c4 35.Nd5 b3 36.cxb3 cxb3 37.axb3 axb3 38.Nxf6 Ke5 39.Ng8 Kd4 40.Ke2 Ke5 41.g5 Kf4 42.g6 Kg5 43.g7 Kh5 44.gxh8=Q Kh4 45.Qf6+ Kg3 46.h8=Q Kg2 47.Qh3+ Kg1 48.Qg7# 1-0
Round Three – October 19
The third round sees battles of titans end in draws on the top boards.
In the Crown section, leaders Joseph Bellissimo and Michael Humphreys fight to a draw and remain half a point ahead of their closest rivals at 2.5/3.
In the U1900 section, Bob Armstrong and Kamran Amirirad battle to a draw on the top board – allowing Vinorth Vigneswaramoorthy, with a win over Hooshang Abbarin, to join them at 2.5/3.
But in the U1500 section, Richard Morrison is victorious over Chris Field to take sole possession of first place with a perfect 3.0/3.
Round Four – October 26
In the Crown section, Joseph Bellissimo scores a full point against Sergey Malakhovets to take sole possession of first place with 3.5/4, while Erik Malmsten holds Michael Humphreys to a draw.
In U1900 Kamran Amirirad defeats Vinorth Vigneswaramoorthy to take first place with 3.5/4.
And in U1500, Richard Morrison is still perfect after a victory over Benjamin Thalman, leading the section with 4.0/4.
[Event "ACC 5th Ann"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2015.10.26"] [Round "4"] [White "Malmsten, Erik"] [Black "Humphreys, Michael"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B14"] [WhiteElo "1949"] [BlackElo "2350"] [Annotator "Malmsten,Erik"] [PlyCount "105"] [EventDate "2015.10.26"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 {Caro-Kann and French players often don’t like open positions. It can lead to many piece exchanges and a drawn endgame.} Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 ({A) main line:} 5... e6 6. Nf3 Bb4 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bd2 Nc6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O Be7 11. a3 Bf6 12. Qc2 h6 13. Be3 Nce7 14. Ne4 b6 15. Nxf6+ Nxf6) ({B)} 5... Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Nf3 Be7 8. c5 O-O 9. Bb5 Ne4 10. Bxe7 Nxe7 11. Rc1 b6 12. c6 Qd6 13. O-O a6 14. Bd3 Nxc6 15. Nxe4 dxe4 16. Bxe4 Bb7 17. Ne5) 6. Qb3 Bg7 7. cxd5 {The isolated d-pawns are weak and will fall.} O-O 8. Nf3 ({A)} 8. Nge2 Nbd7 9. g3 {Nurmi-Vranesic 1981 1/2-1/2.}) ({ B) old move as in Fischer-Yanofsky 1968 1/2-1/2.} 8. Be2 Na6 9. Bf3 Qb6 10. Qxb6 axb6 11. Nge2 Nb4 12. O-O Rd8 13. d6 Rxd6 14. Bf4 Rd7 15. Rfd1 Nfd5 16. Bg3 Nxc3 17. bxc3 Nc6 18. Nf4 Ra5) 8... Qb6 ({Gets open file for weak pawns. M. Muzychuk did similar exchange against Gaponenko in 2014, draw. Perhaps better is} 8... Nbd7 9. Bg5 Nb6 10. Bc4 {Tal-Bronstein 1961 0-1.}) 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. Bf4 Na6 11. Bc4 Rd8 (11... Nb4 12. O-O (12. Kd2 $2 { to get the king to the b-pawns in the endgame is too risky.})) 12. O-O Nb4 13. Bc7 (13. d6 exd6 14. a3 Nc6 15. h3 $14) 13... Rd7 14. Bxb6 $6 (14. d6 $1 { is better than swiping the half-a-pawn. White was hoping to get Ne5 in before d6.} exd6 ({Houdini prefers} 14... Ne8 15. Bb5 Rxc7 16. dxc7 Nxc7) 15. Bxb6 d5 $16) 14... Nbxd5 15. Bc5 $6 ({Houdini says exchange everything to a draw:} 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bc5 b6 17. Bxd5 Rxd5 18. Bxb6 Rb5 19. Bc5 Rxb2 20. Bxe7 Rbxa2 21. Rxa2 Rxa2 $11) 15... Nxc3 16. bxc3 Ne4 17. Bb4 Rc7 18. Bd3 $2 ({ Trying to stop the fork on e2. A)} 18. Rfe1 Nxc3 19. Rxe7 Rxe7 20. Bxe7 $11) ({ B)} 18. Bb3 Nxc3 19. Bxc3 (19. Rfc1 $4 Ne2+) 19... Rxc3 $11 { Now the advantage switches to Black.}) 18... Nxc3 19. Rfc1 Nd5 $6 (19... Bf5 20. Rxc3 Rxc3 21. Bxc3 Bxd3 $15) 20. Rxc7 Nxc7 21. Bxe7 Bg4 22. Ne5 (22. Rb1 Nd5 23. Bg5 Bxf3 24. gxf3 h6 (24... Bxd4 $2 25. Rxb7 Rxa2 $2 26. Bc4 Rxf2 27. Bxd5 Rxf3+ 28. Kg2 Rf5 29. Bh6 {mates.}) 25. Be3 Ra3 26. Rb3 Rxb3 27. axb3 $11) 22... Be6 23. a3 $2 ({This quiet move risks White losing a piece. A)} 23. a4 Nd5 24. Bc5 b6 25. Bd6 Rd8 26. Ba3 Ne7 27. Bxe7 Rxd4 28. Re1 Bxe5 29. Rxe5 Rxd3 30. f3 $11) ({B)} 23. Rb1 Bxa2 ({Back rank mate threats.} 23... Rxa2 $2 24. Rxb7 Ra1+ 25. Bf1 Bxe5 26. dxe5 Bc4 $4 27. Rb8+ Kg7 28. Bf8+ Kg8 29. Bh6+ Ne8 30. Rxe8#) 24. Rxb7 Ne6 25. h3 Nxd4 $11) 23... Nd5 24. Bh4 (24. Bd6 Rd8 25. Bc5 b6 26. Nc6 Rd7 27. Bb4 Nxb4 28. axb4 Bxd4 $15) (24. Bc5 $4 b6 25. Bxb6 (25. Bd6 Rd8) 25... Nxb6 $19) 24... Ra4 25. Bg3 $2 (25. Nf3 Bxd4 26. Rb1 Rxa3 27. Nxd4 Rxd3 28. Nxe6 fxe6 29. f3 b6 $15) 25... Rxd4 26. Bc2 $4 (26. Bb5 Re4 27. Rd1 Bxe5 28. Bd3 Rf4 29. Bxf4 Nxf4 30. Be4 b5 $17) 26... Rd2 $2 ({ Wrong move order to win a piece.} 26... Nc3 $1 27. Re1 ({A)} 27. Kf1 Rd2 28. Bd3 Bxe5 29. Bxe5 Rxd3 $19) ({B)} 27. Nf3 Ne2+ 28. Kf1 Nxg3+ 29. hxg3 Rc4 30. Rc1 Bh6 $19) 27... Rd2 28. Bb1 Re2 29. Rxe2 Nxe2+ 30. Kf1 Nxg3+ 31. fxg3 Bxe5 $19) 27. Rc1 Nc3 28. Nf3 Rd8 (28... Ne2+ 29. Kf1 Nxg3+ 30. hxg3 Bb2 31. Nxd2 Bxc1 32. Nb1 $17) 29. Re1 Ra8 30. Ng5 Rxa3 $6 (30... Bc4 {Going for the two bishops with Ne2+ and Nxg3 may be stronger than having the bishop and knight.}) 31. Nxe6 {White weakens the pawn structure, future targets.} fxe6 32. h4 Kf7 33. h5 {Important long-term defence for Black to not have connected pawns.} Ra1 $6 ({Black has better winning chances with rooks on. A)} 33... Bd4 34. Be5 Bxe5 35. Rxe5 Kf6 36. Rc5 b6 37. Rc7 Ne2+ 38. Kh2 b5 39. Rxh7 gxh5 $17) ({B)} 33... gxh5 34. Bxh7 b5 $17) 34. hxg6+ hxg6 35. Kf1 (35. Rxa1 Ne2+ 36. Kh2 Bxa1 $11) 35... Rxe1+ (35... Ra6 36. Bb3 $15) 36. Kxe1 b5 37. Kd2 Nd5 38. Bd6 Bd4 39. f3 (39. Ke2 $11) 39... Bc3+ ({Black is low on time. Trickier is} 39... Ne3 40. Bb1 (40. Bd3 $2 Nc4+ 41. Bxc4 bxc4 $17) 40... Nxg2 41. Bd3 Nh4 42. Bxb5 { Taking off Black’s winning chances, pawns need to be far apart.} Nxf3+ 43. Kd3 $15) 40. Kd3 Bb4 41. Be5 ({A trick.} 41. Bxb4 $4 Nxb4+ 42. Kc3 Nxc2 43. Kxc2 Kf6 $19 {and mate in over 20 moves.}) 41... Bc5 42. Bb3 Ne3 43. g4 Nd5 44. Ke4 Ne7 45. f4 Ba3 46. Bc3 Bd6 47. Be1 Bc5 48. Bh4 Nc6 (48... b4 49. Bxe7 Kxe7 50. f5 $2 exf5+ 51. gxf5 g5 $15) 49. f5 gxf5+ 50. gxf5 Nd4 51. fxe6+ Ke8 52. Bd5 b4 53. Bf6 {And Black can draw even with 53… Nxe6.} 1/2-1/2
Round Five – November 2
The leaders stay strong in the final round! In the Crown section, Joseph Bellissimo scores another victory, this time over Dave Southam, to take the tournament with 4.5/5. Congratulations, Joseph!
In U1900, Kamran Amirirad defeats George Supol to take the section with 4.5/5! Congratulations, Kamran!
And in U1500, it’s another win by Richard Morrison, this time over Milan Cvetkovic, to finish with a perfect 5.0/5! Congratulations, Richard!
See complete results on the standings table below.
A big thank-you to all for helping us celebrate five wonderful years of downtown Toronto chess at Annex Chess Club!
A new club tournament starts next week, Monday November 9, with the round starting at 7:30 pm. New players are welcome to join! Please arrive before 7:00 pm to register.
Club members, please stop in at the front desk and check your club membership renewal date. Then make a note to remind yourself to renew on time!
Final Standings after Round 5
SwissSys Standings. ACC 5th Anniversary Swiss: Crown section
Rtng
1 Joseph Bellissimo 147544 2225 W6 W10 D2 W7 W3 4.5
2 Michael Humphreys 131628 2350 W8 W7 D1 D4 D5 3.5
3 David Southam 102535 2238 L13 W14 W10 W6 L1 3.0
4 Erik Malmsten 100196 1949 H— W12 H— D2 D7 3.0
5 Alex T. Ferreira 127516 2107 D14 H— H— W11 D2 3.0
6 Daniel Wiebe 132137 2024 L1 W8 W11 L3 B— 3.0
7 Sergey Malakhovets 158413 2094 W12 L2 W13 L1 D4 2.5
8 Daniel Zotkin 146857 2077 L2 L6 W14 H— W10 2.5
9 Jonathan Yu 126131 2238 H— H— U— U— W11 2.0
10 Arkadiy Ugodnikov 146626 1824 B— L1 L3 D12 L8 1.5
11 William Li 154677 1940 H— W13 L6 L5 L9 1.5
12 Armand Jess Mendoza 156958 1918 L7 L4 B— D10 U— 1.5
13 Nameer Issani 154796 2025 W3 L11 L7 H— U— 1.5
14 Aahil Noorali 155015 1940 D5 L3 L8 H— U— 1.0
SwissSys Standings. ACC 5th Anniversary Swiss: U1900 section
1 Kamran Amirirad 158329 1698 W9 W4 D3 W2 W7 4.5
2 Vinorth Vigneswaramoorthy 153938 1636 W6 H— W5 L1 W3 3.5
3 Robert J. Armstrong 100034 1590 W10 W8 D1 D4 L2 3.0
4 Tigran Ghazarian 155438 1544 W5 L1 H— D3 W10 3.0
5 Hooshang Ab-barin 152910 1670 L4 W7 L2 B— W9 3.0
6 Mysha Gilani 155004 1476 L2 W9 W10 H— U— 2.5
7 George Supol 152286 1482 H— L5 B— H— L1 2.0
8 Max England 155135 1671 W11 L3 H— H— U— 2.0
9 Ulli Diemer 153538 1567 L1 L6 H— W10 L5 1.5
10 Mark A. Patton 104721 1469 L3 X11 L6 L9 L4 1.0
11 Marc Ben-Avraham 145628 1549 L8 F10 U— U— U— 0.0
1 Richard Morrison 135889 1359 W2 W15 W14 W10 W5 5.0
2 Joey Qiao 156764 1096 L1 H— W22 W14 W6 3.5
3 Larissa Souchko 145490 935 L12 W27 W15 W18 L21 3.0
4 Jean-Marc David 151900 1351 L13 H— W11 H— W10 3.0
5 Milan Cvetkovic 150817 1286 H— W26 W24 H— L1 3.0
6 Rahul Gangolli 156023 994 H— W30 H— W16 L2 3.0
7 Joshua Allen 105802 1421 W16 H— H— W12 U— 3.0
8 Harry [Siqi] Chen 159391 975 H— H— L16 W21 W25 3.0
9 Paul Panayotou 160475 1032 H— W25 H— U— W14 3.0
10 Benjamin Thalman 160474 1375 W22 W19 H— L1 L4 2.5
11 Henry XianRui Zhang 156492 975 D23 L20 L4 W25 W18 2.5
12 Michael Saltat 158633 1289 W3 W13 H— L7 U— 2.5
13 Alex Geddie 155388 1051 W4 L12 H— W15 U— 2.5
14 Christopher Field 108098 1229 W29 W24 L1 L2 L9 2.0
15 Ryan Guo 154346 1169 W21 L1 L3 L13 W30 2.0
16 Eli Teram 107314 1117 L7 W21 W8 L6 U— 2.0
17 Justin Tanasijczuk 160476 1309 H— W18 U— H— U— 2.0
18 Jeff Pancer 107543 1112 W20 L17 W19 L3 L11 2.0
19 Nick Jafari 160405 1160 W28 L10 L18 W24 U— 2.0
20 Brendan Grady 158392 1379 L18 W11 H— H— U— 2.0
21 Piotr Jucha unr. L15 L16 W30 L8 W3 2.0
22 Howard Halim 153419 1101 L10 H— L2 W30 U— 1.5
23 Adam Goldfarb 153496 1299 D11 H— H— U— U— 1.5
24 Alex Moiseev 160217 771 B— L14 L5 L19 U— 1.0
25 Jacob Tobin unr. H— L9 H— L11 L8 1.0
26 Martin Pitt-Bradley 158457 960 H— L5 H— U— U— 1.0
27 Dylan Hickson unr. H— L3 H— U— U— 1.0
28 Abdalla Seddik unr. L19 H— H— U— U— 1.0
29 Keira Cuthbert 160468 903 L14 H— H— U— U— 1.0
30 Larry Tobin unr. H— L6 L21 L22 L15 0.5
W = win (e.g., W9 means a win against player 9 – worth 1 point)
L = loss (0 pt)
D = draw (½ pt)
H = ½-pt bye (requested in advance or assigned on registration, max 2 per player, not in final round)
B = 1-pt bye (“forced bye” – e.g., odd number of players)
U = 0-pt bye (e.g., when max ½-pt byes previously awarded, or in final round)
F = forfeit loss (0 pt)
X = forfeit win (1 pt)
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Judo ace Groenen throws Dutch towards unlikely World Cup glory
by Ted Wilson | July 05, 2019 | 01:38
Avishka Fernando smashed his first one-day global century as Sri Lanka scored an imposing 338-6 in their World Cup clash against the West Indies on Monday, with both sides playing only for pride.
But just when the duo looked good to guide their team across the line, a mixup saw Allen getting run out (51; 32b, 4×7, 6×1) with 57 needed off 36 balls. He bagged a total of 118 runs off 103 balls along with 11 boundaries and four big sixes.
Chasing 339 for victory, West Indies lost Sunil Ambris and Shai Hope to Sri Lanka pace spearhead Lasith Malinga's fierce spell with the new ball.
Pooran got to his 100 in 92 balls and looked all set to pull off a memorable victory for his side before Mathews trumped him and swung the tide in Sri Lanka's favour.
But when Nicholas Pooran (108) and Fabian Allen (51) combined in an 83-run, seventh-wicket stand, the superstar singer from Barbados was back on her feet along with the crowd.
"What he has produced is what we expect him to produce, we want him to get better and improve", the all-rounder added.
The disappointment was clearly visible on Jason Holder's face as he faced the reporters after West Indies' defeat against Sri Lanka on Monday.
"We still have pride to play for and we're still looking for that flawless game", said Holder, whose side have been largely let down by their batsmen.
West Indies was already out of contention after losing four in a row following a confident start to the tournament. For the Sri Lanka team, who scored not one ODI century in 2018, and only two others this year, it was a breath of fresh air.
The West Indies end their involvement at this World Cup against Afghanistan, still searching for their first win of the tournament, on Thursday.
"I knew once myself and Fabian were batting, we were in control. I just want to personally thank her for coming out", he said.
"Just disappointed for us today".
Sri Lanka have won only one of their last eight ODIs against India but they did beat them by seven wickets in the ICC Champions Trophy at The Oval in 2017.
"He will take a lot of confidence from this and he has now proven to himself that he can go on and do it on the worldwide stage", added Jayawardene.
That asking price really should make Leicester the only realistic contender, by using a large chunk of the expected Maguire money. According to Sun reporter Tom Barclay, Leicester will try to sign Lewis Dunk from Brighton if Maguire joins Man United.
How Yesterday's Total Solar Eclipse Looked From a Plane (Photos, Video)
I've never seen an eclipse, and it's very surprising because it doesn't happen very often. You'll need eclipse glasses, which are regulated by an worldwide safety standard.
U.S. lawmaker Ocasio-Cortez says detained migrants told to drink toilet water
More than half of them were kept outside and those inside were kept in cells more than five times the capacity. Group members posted offensive graphics, including a photo illustration of Democratic Rep.
Trump still wants tanks displayed at July 4th celebration
Washington Monument (C) and US Capitol (R) are seen on the National Mall from air October 17, 2012 above Washington, DC. Here are some of the things we do (and don't) know about the festivities planned for Trump's "A Salute to America".
European Union leaders' tentative deal on top jobs hits opposition in parliament
In times of such crises, European institutions can easily lose credibility if leaders are unable to stand up to big member states. French IMF chief Christine Largarde was selected to take over from Mario Draghi as head of the European Central Bank.
Leeds sign Wolves winger Costa on loan
The youngster, though, will stay at Leeds for the 2019-20 campaign, after a loan deal was agreed between the two clubs. Clarke is Spurs' first signing since Brazil forward Lucas Moura joined from Paris St-Germain in January 2018.
Census Bureau Begins Printing Without Citizenship Question
Trump said over the weekend that he was looking into delaying the census, but that does not appear to be an option. The Justice Department confirmed the move later Tuesday afternoon, as did the Commerce Department.
Pence Abruptly Cancels New Hampshire Trip, Returns to White House
Add Mike Pence as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Mike Pence news, video, and analysis from ABC News . The VP was supposed to attend an event in New Hampshire regarding the opioid crises, but that has been cancelled.
Good news for Man United as club ‘agrees terms’ with Portuguese powerhouse
The England global has seen his wages increase to around £250,000 a week on a deal that runs to the summer of 2023. United will lodge an official offer this week for Longstaff, who is valued at around £25million by his club.
'What are they doing?' - Neville says U.S. breached etiquette with hotel visit
For the past three years, the US had tried to assemble a team to compete with the direction the sport is moving in. Bronze spent time with Everton , Liverpool and Manchester City before joining European power Olympique Lyonnais.
Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff Beats Polona Hercog, Advances to Fourth Round at Wimbledon
Chelsea boss Lampard: Redknapp and Ancelotti positive influences
Fifa seeking to expand Women's World Cup, Latest Football News
It’s Nigeria, South Africa as Bafana Bafana shock Pharaohs 1-0
Emery sets sights on strengthening his Gunners with Real Madrid trio
West Ham legend McAvennie: Just sell Arnautovic
Frank Lampard will merge Chelsea first team and academy after becoming manager
Solskjaer: Man Utd working on more signings
Nigeria Survives Cameroon Scare To Progress To Quarter Final
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Opera Review: BLO’S “Handmaid’s Tale” — Sublime Dystopia
By Katrina Holden-Buckley
The perversity of The Handmaid’s Tale oppressive allegory lends itself well to opera, and Boston Lyric Opera makes the most of the material’s emotional heights and depths.
The Handmaid’s Tale Music by Poul Ruders. Libretto by Paul Bentley. Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. Sung in English with English surtitles. Directed by Anne Bogart. Staged by Boston Lyric Opera at Harvard University Ray Lavietes Pavilion, 45 North Harvard Street, Boston, MA through May 12.
Offred (Jennifer Johnson Cano) despairs over the fate of her daughter in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Photo: Liza Voll.
Boston Lyric Opera’s ambitious production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale is an adaptation that transforms its the original source into a journey that stands on its own. Margaret Atwood’s first-person speculative fiction is set in the repressive world of Gilead, located in a dystopian future America controlled by an oppressive religious regime that battles against environmentally-caused infertility with radical fervor. Female bodies have been decreed to be be nothing more than vessels for impregnation.
The perversity of the narrative’s oppressive allegory lends itself well to opera. The pretense and stylish artifice of Gliead’s masculine power play is nothing if not hyperbolically heightened. Yet woven through the extremity is the intimate story of the entrapment — followed by the resilience — of the story’s protagonist, Offred. The political relevance of the material’s focus on the terrors of misogyny generated enormous buzz about this Boston premiere, along with the popularity of the acclaimed Hulu series based on the book, which is now between seasons. The Boston Lyric Opera production lives up to the hype — it is an impressively chilling achievement.The dramatic proceedings, directed by Anne Bogart, are consistently engaging and compelling, the orchestra tautly led by David Angus, and the singing superb.
BLO still does not have a theatrical home, and it chose Cambridge’s Lavietes Pavilion for its recreation of the fictional world of Gilead. The curtain speech made the point that the choice of venue was intentional. This academic setting was the place Atwood had in mind when she created the Red Center. The training ground for the Handmaids is located at a college campus gymnasium in what is later revealed in the novel to be Cambridge. The production team has transformed the gym floor into a mostly metallic theater-in-the-round with a large orchestra at its side. Set pieces are sparse: small furniture pieces are used to delineate the action between rooms and flashbacks. Metallic benches circle the stage; scenes are divided via the sound of a prison buzzer. Barbed wire fences sit in and out of our field of vision.
For the opera’s considerable number of large ensemble numbers, the handmaids, in their signature red frocks, are the set pieces. Their elegantly precise movements, crafted by Shura Baryshnikov, embody the “group think” of a brainwashed women. The story line is filled with artfully dramatized though grim twists and turns, the horrifying doings including lynchings, ritual rapes, mob killings, and various other abuses. Lynched bodies were glimpsed via projections — until near the end, when the audience witnessed two hangings. The nooses flew away as the handmaids reached for the falling bodies.
The strains of Poul Ruders’ score enhanced the elements of terror; his music is always the focal point of Gilead’s heightened reality. Riveting dissonant sweeps accompanied every flashback in which we saw Offred and her family being separated at the Canadian border. This traumatic scene became haunting — it was repeated at least three times. Thrumming rhythmic drones were used during the childbirth ritual scene. Seedy jazz strains usher us into “Jezebelles,” a hotel converted into an underground brothel, where Offred encounters her friend Moira for the last time. Their farewell is sung to a moving variation on “Amazing Grace,” which is also heard in an earlier flashback featuring Serena Joy when she was a TV personality. Paul Bentley’s libretto impressively dramatized Offred’s first person narration in Atwood’s dense novel. Much of the action gives us Offred sitting quietly — trapped in the turmoil of her mind. Her aria in the second half evokes the novel’s moon imagery; Offred is hoping each month to become pregnant; it is the only way she can be saved from being sent to the Colonies.
The end of the opera, though the same as in the novel, feels a tad abrupt after so much detail. Librettist and composer tried to mitigate the sudden shock of conclusion by bringing in an ensemble of layered individual monologues just before Offred walks off to an unknown fate. The problem is that the collection of voices was very difficult to follow, vocally and textually. The creative choice slowed down the action, but it didn’t flow well and felt like an afterthought. In contrast, the final gesture was very effective. Offred’s hopes in her final moments — either toward liberation or death — were beautifully drawn out by the orchestra’s move into heated dissonance.
This is Offred’s tale and opera, and Jennifer Johnson Cano delivers memorably. Rarely leaving the stage, she has mastered an emotionally fraught libretto as well as a musically challenging score. Cano brings a beautiful, shimmering pianissimo to her more introspective moments and and an impressive vocal stamina to the role’s more bombastic heights. Throughout, she skillfully conveys Offred’s grief, distrust, and reluctant persistence.
Caroline Worra, as the handmaids’ trainer Aunt Lydia, maintains an intensely menacing presence physically and vocally by way of an exacting diction even in a fairly high tessitura. Felicia Gavilanes as Offred in flashbacks also brought considerable pathos to her role. Her duet with Johnson Cano — as they recall her lost daughter — is a well-rendered and emotionally moving highlight.
Aunt Lydia (Caroline Worra) prepares the handmaidens for a birthing ritual in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Photo: Liza Voll.
David Cushing was appropriately lecherous as the Commander, who was instrumental in creating the new society. His vocal over-darkening and occasional lack of control, while not conventionally ‘beautiful,’ worked without too much distraction.
Dana Beth Miller, vocally resolute as Offred’s mother, come off as a bit too angry in her first scene, when she is accuses Offred of lapsing from her feminism by settling down and getting married. The character becomes somewhat one-note in her hectoring. There is insufficient build-up to the figure’s eventual panic and anger at the collapse of rational society.
Amid the BLO’s large cast, smaller parts that shine include Chelsea Basler as the rebel Moira, Kathryn Skemp Moran as the unhinged and often childishly pathetic Janine, Matt DiBatista as the unctuous doctor who casually offers to impregnate Offred, Omar Najmi as Nick, Michelle Trainor as Ofglen, and Vera Savage as the New Ofglen. As handmaids and Marthas, female choristers sang and moved beautifully — and sneered effectively when appropriate.
The handmaids may repeatedly chant “I am empty,” but this is an opera that is full. Its subject matter is not for the faint of heart, but Atwood’s political, biological, and psychological horrors are treated with artistry and depth. BLO’s cast and production team never lets up in their commitment to the emotional savagery and nuance of Atwood’s indelible warning.
Katrina Holden, soprano, has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera, Odyssey Opera, MassOpera, and Connecticut Lyric Opera, as well as in concert throughout the country and abroad. A graduate of The New England Conservatory and Muhlenberg College, she has written for Boston Singers’ Resource, Classical Singer Magazine, and The Theatre Times.
By: Katrina Holden-Buckley Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Anne Bogart, Margaret Atwood, Paul Bentely, Paul Ruders, The Handmaiden's Tale
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The Big Munge
August 25, 2014 arunranga Leave a comment
“Give me your email address so I can call you!” she said.
At first, I thought I misheard. She must have have muddled “call” and “write.” So I asked for clarification.
“Whatever. Call. Write. I prefer to call people at their email addresses. Or message them.”
Then I realized that she was referring to a FaceTime conversation, using her email address (an @cloud.com thingy), which she used interchangeably, and in fact, indistinguishably, with SMS/MMS. And I had a series of discomforting thoughts about the pros and cons of paying attention to extricable components within what I’ll call The Big Munge. By that I mean the grand unified stew of communication protocols and data that Millennials kids these days consumers interact with so differently now, and have so many different assumptions about.
Society, Technology
FAQtechism
April 4, 2014 arunranga 22 Comments
Questions and answers, because my friends and I have been doing a lot of asking and answering, in unequal measure, with more asking than answering. Because I’ve been distraught by the incessant stream of reductionist observations about Mozilla, each one like being punched in the heart with the hard fists of righteousness and conviction. Because questions and answers once brought me peace, when I was much younger.
A man with no titles. Formerly, one of the first technology evangelists for Mozilla, when it was still a Netscape project. A Mozillian.
Who is Brendan Eich?
A man with a title titles. An inventor. A unifier. A divider. A Mozillian. A friend.
What has Mozilla done?
From humble and unlikely beginnings, Mozilla entered a battle seemingly already decided against it, and gradually unseated the entrenched incumbent, user by user by user, through campaigns that were traditional and innovative, and increased consciousness about the open web. It became a beloved brand, standing firmly for open source and the open web, championing the Internet, sometimes advocating politically for these convictions. It relied, and continues to rely, on a community of contributors from all over the world.
What has Brendan done?
Many things intrinsic to the open web; he helped shape technologies used by countless numbers of users, including to write and read this very post. Also, a hurtful and divisive thing based on a conviction now at odds with the law of the land, and at odds with my own conviction: in 2008, he donated $1000 to California Proposition 8, which put on a statewide ballot a proposition to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman in the state, thus eliminating gay marriage, and calling into question pre-existing gay marriages. The amount donated was enough to oblige him to list his employer — Mozilla — for legal reasons.
What are my convictions?
That any two people in love should be able to marry, regardless of their genders; that the marriage of two such people affords all legal protections intrinsic to the institution of marriage including immigration considerations, estate planning considerations, and visitation rights. That this is in fact a civil right. That matters of civil rights should not be put before a population to vote on as a statewide proposition; in short, that exceptions to the Equal Protection Clause cannot be decided by any majority, since it is there to protect minorities from majorities (cf.Justice Moreno).
How do such convictions become law?
Often, by fiat. Sometimes, even when the battle is already seemingly decided (with the entrenched weight of history behind it, an incumbent), one state at a time. State by State by State (by States), using campaigns that are traditional and innovative, to increase consciousness about this as a civil right.
How should people with different convictions disagree?
Bitterly, holding fast to conviction, so that two individuals quarrel ceaselessly till one yields to the other, or till one retreats from the other, unable to engage any longer.
Amicably, by setting aside those convictions that are unnecessary to the pursuit of common convictions I share with other Mozillians, like the open web. Brendan embodied the Mozilla project; he would have made a promising CEO. My conviction can be governed by reason, and set aside, especially since the issue is decided by courts, of both law and public opinion. His view, only guessable by me, seems antediluvian. Times have changed. I can ask myself to be governed by reason. We need never touch this question.
But I can do this because my conviction about the law, stated before, has never been tested personally by the specter of suicide or the malevolence of bullying; marriage equality is the ultimate recognition, destigmatizing lifestyles, perhaps helping with suicide and bullying. And, my inability to marry has never disrupted my life or my business. I cannot ask others to lay aside convictions, without recognizing the sources of pain, and calling them out. (Here, Brendan made commitments, and Mozilla did too).
What will the future hold?
Brendan has said his non serviam but calls out a mission which I think is the right one: privacy, also a civil right, especially privacy from governments; continued user advocacy; data liberation; a check on walled gardens (and an end to digital sharecropping); the web as mobile platform, even though it is under threat in the mobile arena, the battle seemingly decided, the entrenched incumbent slightly less obvious. This latter — mobile — is reminiscent of the desktop world in 1998. It’s the same story, with smaller machines. Perhaps the same story will have to be told again. I’d like Mozilla to be a major player in that story, just as it always has been a major player on the web. And I’ll be looking forward to seeing what Brendan does next. I’ll miss him as part of Mozilla. This has been crushing.
Coda: what have wise ones said?
“I don’t know why we’re talking about tolerance to begin with. We should be at acceptance and love. What’s this tolerance business? What are you tolerating, backpain? ‘I’ve been tolerating backpain, and the gay guy at work?'” — Hari Kondabalu (watch him on Letterman). And blog posts: Mozilla is not Chick-Fil-A; Thinking about Mozilla; The Hounding of a Heretic (Andrew Sullivan); a few others, discussing what a CEO should do, and what qualities a CEO should possess, which are out there for you to discover.
Standards, Technology
SxSW 2012 Redux
March 19, 2012 arunranga Leave a comment
Things HAPPEN after the browser wars panel I’ve now moderated for five years in a row at SxSW. Brendan posts this about H.264 in Mozilla.
Then, Jeremy Keith, our unofficial rabble-rouser, excoriates the cognoscenti about a certain “lack of imagination.” Chris Wilson, finally at liberty to blog and tweet about his responsibilities as web platform guy for Google, responds conversationally.
Browser wars always delivers. Thank you, Brendan (“Dart? Good luck with that!”), Charles (who conducted a much-needed straw poll: “Who knows what vendor prefixing is?” to which many hands went up, underscoring the fact that SxSW is really our favorite audience), Chris (“Do you ship VBScript?”), and John (“Chromeless — my favorite word.”).
The panel always coincides with my birthday. I won’t get mawkish, but I will say that there’s something interesting about growing up with web browsers professionally. When I was with Netscape, I talked a relentless amount of smack about IE and railed against closed-source stacks. That kind of talk is antiquated now, really. Flash fallback (for video) notwithstanding, there are open sourced stacks that confuse the web platform landscape. We talked about some of those during the panel, chiefly Dart (though SPDY and VP8 got some mention, along with Native Client). At some point, I found myself moderating a panel where browser vendors agree about the importance of DRM, and its inevitability on the web platform, at least as far as video goes. Times have changed. Have we all grown up? There used to be visceral auto-immune responses in some circles to any kind of mention of DRM whatsoever.
This time, SxSW was bigger than ever. Long lines. LOTS of long lines. And after-after-after parties for people that scorn sleep. Of course, I allowed myself some minor peccadilloes this year at SxSW. Like how I found myself on Snoop Dogg’s tour bus at 4a.m. one night, somewhere on the way to San Antonio. But that’s another kind of story. You’ll have to ask me about it in person.
Update: You can follow the H.264 conversation on the hacks blog also if only to be exposed to a different comment stream.
Server Outages And Things
March 19, 2012 arunranga 1 Comment
So, in an utterly humiliating turn of events, I was hacked — again — this time during SxSW. I had to take the server down for some routine pruning. I think we’re now back to our usual programming.
Browser Wars Episode V: The Angry Birds Era
March 8, 2012 arunranga 3 Comments
It’s back on again. Five times makes an institution, I suppose, despite what some feel is an anachronistic name (“Browser WARS? Haven’t you won already?”). This year, with Angry Birds getting at least an honorable mention. March 10 2012, from 5PM – 6PM, at Salon K of the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas, for SxSW.
I can’t seem to stay away. This is a vibrant space, and the very smart people I will moderate during Saturday’s discussion are the forerunners of it: Brendan Eich, who invented JavaScript, and is Mozilla’s CTO; Chris Wilson, who worked on every version of IE till IE8 and now works on Chrome for Google (we’re thrilled to have him back, following a brief moratorium); Charles McCathie Nevile, Opera’s Chief Standards Officer, back again this year; and John Hrvatin, IE’s Program Manager and a veteran from last year.
The technologies that we steward here have profound implications for society, and an hour is tight. Recently, Microsoft protested about how Google circumvents privacy in IE and Safari (showing, amongst other things, that two players, Google and Microsoft, are at loggerheads frequently).
Then, there are interesting questions about content itself. Should web video have DRM, or is that the real anachronism? Content protection measures in HTML5 Video proposed by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have been dubbed unethical; parties within one company clearly don’t agree about how to take it forward, but that’s really how the web works (and big organizations like Google).
And then there’s those Angry Birds. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, called for installable web apps to become more widespread, something which Ian Hickson (editor of the HTML5 specification) dubs “anathema.” What prevents Angry Birds from being an HTML5 app on mobile, and what exactly are the application stacks the web is in competition with? Some of our panelists and their organizations have been moved to call us to arms.
Throw in the vendor prefixing controversy (now as seen in the popular press!), SPDY, VP8 and other “non-standard” well-meaning projects, along with the Metro environment’s use of HTML5, and I think we’ve got ourselves enough wheat and chaff for a panel. As usual, audience participation counts for at least one-third of the panel, so come with questions. I look forward to seeing you all there, and to a Saturday night out in Austin after the panel. That’s an institution with longevity, too.
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An annotated anthology of Arun Ranganathan's Web noise.
At My Leisure…
Extrapolations
Archives Select Month August 2014 (1) April 2014 (1) March 2012 (3) February 2012 (1) October 2011 (1) March 2011 (2) February 2011 (1) October 2010 (1) May 2010 (1) March 2010 (3) July 2009 (2) March 2009 (2) February 2009 (4) August 2008 (1) July 2008 (1) June 2008 (1) March 2008 (2) January 2008 (1) September 2007 (1) June 2007 (1) May 2007 (2) April 2007 (1) March 2007 (3) February 2007 (4) January 2007 (2) December 2006 (1) November 2006 (1)
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Nostalgia Pieces, Writer's Cafe
An Eternal Summer Afternoon
I read somewhere how the Philippine government was trying to figure out what to do with 10 million mangoes produced in excess due to the warmer weather.
Mango float, mango shake, mango graham, mango juice, mango jam… the list went on in my head. But the list quickly turned into memories of long, languid, hot summer afternoons, and falling mangoes.
There was an abundance of mango trees in Area 1. It was a neighbourhood of faculty homes in the fringes of our university. The paved roads had become dusty from continuous plumbing repairs by Manila Water but it was still lush with overgrown plants and trees. There were mostly fruit trees, star apple, santol, mango trees and maybe a few gemelina and mahogany. In the summer, there would often be an excess of ripened mangoes which residents had no interest of harvesting. Those from the neighbouring baranggays would come by with their contraption of connected bamboo poles to harvest the ripened fruit trees. Nobody minded. There were enough fruits to go around. There were even more fruits rotting on the ground. The path from our driveway all the way to the main road were lined with these. And every once in awhile a mango fruit would fall as I walked.
“Life is one long stretch of weddings, funerals, falling mangoes, and dead spiders.”
I wrote that on the 12th of June 2017. It wasn’t just the falling mangoes that reminded me of summer, it was also the funerals. Another article I read was about how summer was a time of lonely deaths in Japan. I had just attended another funeral. The second one for my second year back in Manila. The second funeral was for my grandmother’s brother who had been a chancellor at the university. The first one was for my grandfather’s brother. My grandfather was the only remaining sibling now. I figured the saying was true – “masamang damo, hindi madaling mamatay.” I had no affection for my father’s father.
When I was seventeen I had breakfast with him and his mistress at a hotel in Cebu. He boasted about the architectural buildings he built, the magazines he founded, the places he travelled and the photographs he took. His mistress boasted about how her child got into the University of the Philippines. That same child who claimed my grandmother’s home was her “crib” on a Facebook Album.
Later, after we had met up with them, my kind, forgiving aunt explained in an almost patronizing way why they must have felt the need to talk big. Academic achievement was the currency in our family. Getting into UP was the norm. The more intellectual and academic you were, the higher you ranked in family hierarchy. My grandfather didn’t graduate from the same university as my grandmother though. The mistress, who had gone to a different school must have felt slighted in her early years as well. I do not think she was acknowledged by my grandfather’s side of the family either.
At the funeral, my grandfather asked my aunt who I was, after I dutifully took his hand for a mano. He did not know his eldest son’s children, nor did he remember. It was to be expected, he had after all abandoned his first family and moved his illegitimate family into my grandmother’s home less than 24 hours after she passed away. When he dies, there will be no love lost among his grandchildren. That would be his legacy. Not the buildings nor the photographs or the magazines, not even his daughter who got into UP. No, just that he was a horrible old man, even in death.
Weddings. That same summer, I had proxied for my sister as a bridesmaid to her bestfriend’s wedding. The Bride and Groom were childhood friends. When I was thirteen and they were sixteen I thought they were meant for each other even as they dated other people. The Bride had gone to a coed elementary school while the Groom went to an all boy’s school. But we all met in the same co-ed Catholic Highschool. Ten years later their wedding was presided by Father P, their high school teacher.
In the summer of my freshman year, Father P asked my sister if my first love and I were still together. He was in the same graduating batch as my sister and her friends. We were best friends.
The Groom’s mother, Mrs. D was my accounting teacher when I was a senior. Her youngest son Bee*, was a sophomore. I had a crush on Bee and would be teased mercilessly even by Mrs. D as I stood in front struggling to answer board work. I could not understand debit or credit in an accounting context. Wasn’t credit a loan? Why would it be an asset? Oh, it was a different credit. I always needed context to work with. My skewed understanding of credit did me well later in life though. I have become furiously responsible with my credit cards.
Bee and I were introduced to each other beneath a staircase. My friend Julia was dating Dundie, a sophomore. The two matchmakers hoped introductions could escalate into double dates. Dundie and Bee were basketball teammates. Bee and I didn’t look each other in the eye while mumbling our hellos and that was that. At the end of the school year Bee told me he had a crush on me. I was already dating someone else.
That someone else was my classmate X. At the time of the wedding X and I had already broken up for awhile. He mentioned he was invited to that same wedding with his girlfriend. I asked him why he didn’t show up. He said there was school etc. etc. I wondered if they knew I’d be there. The wedding invitations must have said so. I tried not to think that my presence could cause someone’s discomfort. Wouldn’t that be narcissistic of me? But then again, I try to be honest in my writing, and the thought did enter my mind.
At the wedding the next table was filled with our highschool teachers. X and I had dated for a very long time and seeing both of us in one event could spark assumptions.
Small town webs. The Bride’s brother, Vinnie, who was also a former classmate, came up to me and told me how Mrs. A was looking for me.
Mrs. A was X’s boss when he was a college student assistant. She was also my Science labmate’s mother. My labmate, Ram and I had formed a closeknit lab group with two other guys. A bond which the ex-boyfriend tried to infiltrate while in pursuit of me. In college, Ram introduced X to the student assistant job. X once got mad at Ram and my labmates when I hung out with them during a friend’s birthday buffet celebration. I thought at the time that we had all become friends.
Before leaving for Canada I gave Ram a puppy. X didn’t want one saying no one could care for it. He was also afraid of dogs anyway. The puppy became a much loved member of Ram’s family. Bertolt was also my favourite puppy and they had kept his nickname, calling him Berty. Mrs. A was glad to see me and told me all about Berty. Before I said my goodbye, she asked where X was. I must have told her he was based in another city.
X admitted he had wanted to go and said he would have liked to see what could have happened. He was “curious.” I hid a smirk and a quick eyeroll. Would it have mattered if he were there? Whatever intertwined histories and stories we had would lie beneath the surface. The intricacies of growing up in a small town would only be noticed by the few who paid as much attention as we both did to these details. Besides, what was there to be curious about? The possibility of drama?
Before the wedding march, Mrs. D asked me if Bee had already seen me. I shook my head and smiled. At the reception I forgot who introduced who to each other, only that Vinni, Bee, and I started chitchatting, drinking and dancing. There were no more mumbling or awkwardness. We were catching up on each other’s lives. Years have gone. We were all friends enjoying the night. There was no drama. People who treated each other well had no need of that.
Dead Spiders. There must have been many dead spiders during the summer, or maybe my narrow cramped room housed a few. I thought about the webs we weaved throughout our lives and the ones disconnected and abandoned. Some webs look like they’ve disappeared but then reveal themselves in the sunlight. Shimmering, silver thread made obvious by weddings and funerals. The spiders however, remain dead.
*Some names have been changed just because.
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Entry tags: bleach, fic, urahara, urahara/yoruichi, yoruichi
[Bleach] Urahara/Yoruichi, no prompt, pr0ntober for ano
Another entry that got out of hand. It's unfinished, but I'll post the beginning for now. ~2900 words, not betaed. UraYoru, no prompt given.
Set pre-series, and many liberties taken with everyone's ages. Urahara and Yoruichi are in the shinigami equivalent of their late teens, Shunsui and Ukitake are a bit older, maybe the equivalent of their early-mid twenties. Byakuya is probably around 8-ish. I'm doing my best to make people recognizable as younger versions of themselves.
The 12th division's 4th seat was not having a good day.
For some unknown reason, his squad had all woken up rather more dim-witted than usual, and managed to bungle every last task assigned to them, leaving him to pick up their slack. It had taken him until early evening to finally drag himself back to his quarters. He was weighing the merits of going back out and eating, but that meant he would have to deal with people, and he was quite sure he'd used up all his patience for the foreseeable future.
"Whoa, somebody had a shitty day."
Yoruichi stood in his doorway, her short hair tousled above a cheerful grin. It wasn't hard to summon a smile for her, in spite of his bad mood. Of course, the revealing outfit she now wore since she had been appointed Keigun's commander helped.
She sat in front of him, sprawling across his floor in a patch of sun. The curve of one hip was exposed by her hakama and she laughed as she recounted the latest captain's meeting.
"Shunsui looked pretty hungover, but he managed to ask me to tell you that you need to settle your wager with him. Oh, and Ukitake says hi."
"Ah, yes." Urahara's mood soured once again. "And how is our virile young captain of the 13th?"
Yoruichi paused, then gave him an annoyed look. "Kisuke, why do you do that?" she asked, sitting up. "I don't get mad about the girl you slept with."
He leaned back against the wall. "I haven't seen her since," he said, tilting his head back as he spoke. "You saw him yesterday and you'll likely see him again tomorrow."
Yoruichi groaned, rocked forward to her feet and began to pace, her slim body slicing through the bars of waning sunlight. "We've been over this," she growled, dragging her hands through her hair. "I didn't want it to be some idiot who didn't know his ass from his elbow."
"Ah," Urahara sighed, "if only we were all blessed with the self-confidence that comes from supreme and utter unconcern."
Yoruichi flew back across the room, thrusting a finger in his face. "You wanted to practice!" she exploded. "'I need data to determine the best methods,'" she mimicked. "'You'll appreciate my experience, Yoruichi-san!' So don't fucking start with me when it was all your idea!"
He shot to his feet, looming over her in a way he knew she hated. "Ukitake Jyuushiro was not my idea," he said, his voice tight. "I assumed you would handle it discreetly, and that would be the end of it. I didn't expect it to be thrown in my face."
Yoruichi clenched her fists, and her eyes blazed as she raised her face to his. "Walking in on us in the bath is not the same as me throwing it in your face! You were supposed to have been gone for another two days!"
He tutted, the noise incongruous with the anger shining from his eyes. "Honestly, Brigade Commander, what kind of covert operative fucks someone on a training ground in broad daylight?"
Yoruichi looked momentarily stricken. "We weren't--" She stopped, her face closing off. "I should have known better to believe you when you said we'd do this with no hard feelings."
Urahara flinched. "Yoru--"
She turned away. "I'll catch you later, Kisuke."
"Yoru, wait--"
Yoruichi was already at the door, and he swore as she flash-stepped away. He'd never once been able to catch her when she put her mind to avoiding him.
He slumped against the wall as her hurt face flashed in front of his eyes once again. "Shit."
By the time Yoruichi made one whole loop around Seireitei, she had begun to calm down. By the second loop, she felt more or less composed. Halfway through the third, she sensed a familiar reiatsu near the wall and changed direction, chuckling to herself. She arrived at a copse of trees between the north and east gates, just far enough from either to avoid detection by the gate guardians.
"Hey kiddo," Yoruichi said. "You know you're not supposed to be out here."
Kuchiki Byakuya, far more self-possessed than any child ought to be, didn't even bother to look guilty as she approached. He gave her a haughty look from above his pristine blue robes. "Yoruichi nee-sama has no authority over me."
She grinned and ruffled his hair. "True, but I have pull with the people who do. Come on, I'll take you home."
Yoruichi didn't bother to take his hand, instead letting him fall into step beside her as she started towards the Kuchiki estate. She didn't bother to make conversation either--Byakuya wasn't much for speaking. He was, in fact, a frighteningly well-behaved child, his only fault a tendency to slip away from his nurses and wander off from time to time. It distressed the Kuchiki elders to no end, but he always found his way back home, never straying into areas he knew were unsafe.
They walked beneath a series of lamps on a wide avenue, the flickering light splashing across Yoruichi's face.
"Yoruichi nee-sama has been crying."
She stopped, looking down at Byakuya in surprise. "Yeah...yeah, I have. But I'll be alright, kiddo, don't worry."
"Hn." He frowned. "Shall I have the house guard summoned?"
Yoruichi blinked at his solemn little face. Then she scooped him up, whooping as she swung him around, nuzzling his round cheeks. "Byakuya-bo! My hero!"
His frown deepened, but he didn't struggle in her hold. "Cease that at once, nee-sama. It is unseemly."
Yoruichi laughed more softly, setting him back on his feet. "Yeah, yeah."
He rearranged his rumpled clothes and smoothed his hair back down, so it lay obediently against his shoulders.
Yoruichi repressed the urge to pick him up again, instead settling for another hair ruffle, which prompted a long-suffering sigh. "Let's go. I'm sure the House elders are worried."
The little boy's disdainful sniff showed what he thought of that.
"Yeah, I know." She ran her fingers through his soft hair. "I don't blame you."
She kept her hand on his head the rest of the way back, something he normally wouldn't allow. One of the Kuchiki guards met them just inside the main house, and she relinquished her charge, promising to come back and visit soon. Byakuya stood in the light of the entry hall, small brow furrowed as he watched her walk away.
Yoruichi decided to take the long way back to the barracks. Kisuke would more than likely be holed up in his lab, so there was little chance of running into him.
The long way happened to run past a bar frequented by the captain of the 8th Division, who was currently celebrating the wonders of life...or the wonders of Tuesday. Something like that.
She got more than one curious glance as she made her way through the tables, but she ignored them all, and people soon turned back to their own conversations.
Shunsui was alone at a table near the wall, his captain's robe carelessly tossed on the seat next to him. A wry grin tugged at her lips as she looked down at him. "Yo."
"Yoruichi!" His face lit up and he slung a heavy arm around her waist, dragging her onto his lap. "Huh," he said, blinking. "Usually you've thrown me to the ground by now."
"Yeah, well," she muttered, moving to sit on the bench across from him.
"Come on," he said. "You can tell me about it over a few drinks."
"I can't believe a lush like you was made captain."
"Connoisseur, Yoruichi," he said, holding up one finger. "In the aristocracy, lushes are called connoisseurs."
"Whatever," she grumbled.
"So what's wrong?" He poured her some wine and slid it across the weathered wood of the table.
Yoruichi fiddled with her cup. "You're a nice guy. Why couldn't I like you?"
"The two of us would only bring out the worst in each other." He beamed as Yoruichi snorted in amusement. "And so? What has young Urahara-san done this time?"
"He's an asshole."
"That's not ever going to change, you know that." Shunsui gave her a slow smile. "He may learn to hide it better as he gets older, but that's about it."
Yoruichi looked down, to the side, anywhere but her friend's knowing eyes. "He's jealous," she finally said, her voice quiet.
"Ahh...is it Jyuu again?"
She nodded, fingers tapping absently against her cup.
"Yoruichi...men do silly things when they feel threatened."
"But it's stupid that he even does," she growled, banging her fist on the table.
"Is it? I'm sure Jyuu made sure you enjoyed yourself."
"...yeah, he did," she mumbled.
"And he's handsome, and smart..."
"So is Kisuke."
"And Jyuu is very likable. Yes, so is Kisuke, but people tend to think he's laughing at them all the time..."
"Which he is," she muttered.
"...so they're intimidated and a bit on their guard, and he knows it." Shunsui paused, brushing his hair out of his eyes. "Most importantly...while you, my lady, have the luxury of knowing your place in his heart is unassailable, he has no such guarantee of your feelings."
Yoruichi's mouth dropped open. "He knows!"
"Does he?" Shunsui leaned forward slightly, his voice serious. "Would he act like this if he did?"
She looked at him, her golden eyes wide. "Hmph," she grunted, turning away.
Having made his point, Shunsui straightened. "Well, shall we? I'm determined to find a wine you can tolerate."
Yoruichi tried to smile at him, but was sure she failed miserably. "I'll have to take you up on that some other time." She tossed back the sake and grimaced. "Ugh. You can cross this one off the list. Later, Shunsui."
Shunsui sighed, patting her hand as she stood. "Goodbye, Yoruichi."
Urahara knew she wasn't coming back. He would have to go to her, even if he wasn't sure he could manage to apologize. She wasn't bothering to mask her reiatsu, but she hadn't stayed in one place for long either, making her difficult to track.
He felt her over by the Kuchiki estate for a little while, but that was hardly the place for their discussion. Besides, the unnatural child who lived there couldn't stand him, and the feeling was more than mutual. Sometime after midnight, he felt her make her way back to the barracks. He told himself she wouldn't be open to seeing him so soon, that she would need time to calm down, but knew it for a lie before he even finished the thought.
Or rather, it wasn't quite a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth, either. She would need time before she was ready to see him, but the real reason he wouldn't go find her tonight was that he was afraid to face her. He prided himself on understanding her better than anyone, but had used that insight clumsily, like a bludgeon, and hurt her in the process.
Over the next week, the two would avoid all face-to-face interaction, only brushing up against each other indirectly. When Yoruichi returned from a mission, Urahara was just out of sight behind a nearby hill, leaving as soon as he saw she was uninjured. And when he woke up in the 4th Division station after fighting multiple hollows, he felt traces of her reiatsu in his recovery room, even though she herself was nowhere to be seen.
The next evening, he gathered his resolve and made his way to the Keigun barracks. The few people he saw simply nodded in greeting, more than used to seeing their commander's oldest friend visit at all hours. He arrived outside her quarters, and the personal guard on duty gave a slight bow.
"Urahara-san," the man murmured, sliding the door open. "The Commander has been expecting you."
Urahara walked through the empty outer receiving room. The decor was elegant and understated, suited to warrior nobility. Darkness obscured the delicate artwork and the warm luster of the wood carvings, but he had seen them countless times before. They were hardly why he was here, anyway.
Yoruichi sat in the inner room, her body outlined through the shoji by the light of a single lamp. He slid the door open and simply stood for a moment, admiring the lines of her as she leaned back on her hands. She wore a loose kimono with vibrant flowers and birds in green, violet, black and orange splashed against a white background. Her nape and shoulders were exposed and her slender legs were bare, fabric spilling across the floor surrounding her.
Urahara closed the door behind him and knelt at her side. Yoruichi turned her head away with a slow blink, the movement utterly disdainful.
"Ah." Urahara pulled back, settling on his heels. "Is this the end, then, Yoruichi-san?" He was proud of how steady his voice was, as though fire and steel weren't ravaging his insides.
Golden eyes slid over to him; they were molten, even in the faint light of the room. "You messed it up," she said, her voice flat. "You fix it."
He took a deep breath. "I...don't know how."
Surprise flashed across her face; she would realize what it cost him to admit that.
Urahara sighed and crossed his legs, resting his elbows on his knees. "You were supposed to find someone anonymous and have a completely forgettable experience."
"Seriously, you're an idiot," Yoruichi said, rolling her eyes. "It can hurt for girls; why would I trust some stranger?"
"You didn't argue when I suggested it."
She snorted. "You mean I didn't try to change your mind. Jackass. I'm not begging anyone to have sex with me."
"The very idea," he murmured, his voice light. "Shihouin Yoruichi-sama is eminently self-sufficient in all ways."
Her eyebrows drew together as she gave him an exasperated look. "Knock it off. You know that's not true."
"I'd like to think that I'm an exception to that...but one can only go on assumption for so long." He reached out, drawing a finger over the smooth curve of her bare knee.
"Idiot," she whispered. "You should know better than anyone." Yoruichi shifted, letting her head sink against his shoulder. He exhaled as something loosened inside his chest, and wound an arm around her waist.
"Have pity on the poor, wretched creature hopelessly in your thrall," Urahara murmured against her hair. "Well, have pity on this one. I'd rather you continued to ignore the rest."
"You're supposed to know, dammit." Her lashes lay against her cheeks as she looked down, avoiding his eyes.
"Another of my many shortcomings, I suppose."
She frowned, her mouth curving in a way he found adorable, although he would never tell her so. They sat in silence, each taking comfort from being together after their time apart.
"I'm meeting with Yamamoto in the morning," she finally said. "I need to get some sleep."
He opened his mouth, then thought better of what he was about to say. "...I'll take my leave then."
Yoruichi placed a hand on his cheek and leaned up to kiss him, her nails lightly scratching along his jaw as she moved her mouth slowly on his. He let the hand at her waist slide down to her hip while the other cupped the back of her head. Breaking the kiss, he buried his face in her hair, running his nose from her temple down to her jawline, then brushing his lips along her cheek back to the corner of her mouth.
"Mm...seriously, you can't stay here," she murmured, her eyes drifting shut.
He pressed a small kiss beneath her jaw, smiling against her throat when he felt her shiver. "We can be quiet," he breathed.
Yoruichi's eyes snapped open and she fisted her hand in his top. "I don't want you to be quiet," she growled. "I want to hear you."
He froze, his fingers digging into her hip as he strained not to press against her. Her breath hit his mouth, and his own grew fast and harsh as they locked eyes.
"I wish," he said, his voice as even as he could make it, "that you would think before you speak. How am I supposed to leave when you say things like that?"
She slowly pulled back, relaxing her hold on his clothing. Urahara let his hands drop from her body and stood up. Yoruichi was a young and untried commander, still building support and earning the respect of the squad leaders and captains. Eccentricity was acceptable, indiscretion was not.
"Wait."
He paused, one hand on the door.
"Wait outside for me," she said, her voice low. "I'll come with you."
Urahara looked over his shoulder in surprise. She was still seated, but the frown that had been present for most of his visit had been replaced by a slow grin that he couldn't help returning.
"Of course, Yoruichi-san."
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MATH 311-01, Fall 2012
Blackboard page for MATH 311-01
Problem Sets
Problem Set #1, due Friday, September 14 (solutions)
Problem Set #2, due Friday, October 12
Problem Set #3, due Friday, November 9
Practice Midterm 1 (solutions)
Midterm 1 (solutions)
Practice Final (solutions)
Final Exam (solutions)
Daily problems
Primary office hours: Monday 11:00–12:00, Thursday 11:00–12:00
Secondary office hours: Tuesday 13:00–14:00, Wednesday 15:00–16:00, or by appointment
Lecture: MWF 10:00–10:50 in Speed Hall 106
Prerequisites: MATH 205 or ENGR 101
Description: Introduction to abstract mathematics with particular attention to developing proof-reading and proof-writing skills. The basics of set theory, functions, relations, number systems, countability.
Textbook: Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Higher Mathematics by Chartrand, Polimeni, and Zhang, second edition (ISBN 9780321390530).
Responsibilities: You are responsible for attending class daily and maintaining comprehension of the material presented in class. Short problems will be presented on a roughly daily basis, and longer problem sets presented infrequently and posted online after class. You shall complete problem sets promptly, and attend examinations on October 5 during class, November 16 during class, and Wednesday, December 12 from 8:00–10:30. Extracurricular interaction with your fellow students, and with the instructor, will be very useful in developing your comprehension.
Special needs: Any scheduled absence during a quiz or examination, or any other special needs, must be brought to my attention during the first week of class. During a scheduled absence, you are expected to complete the daily assignments by e-mail. Absence due to unforseen emergencies will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and must be documented.
Honesty: There are many resources available to help you succeed in this class, including consultation during office hours, secondary texts, and cooperation with other students. It is important, however, that all papers handed in be the result of your individual comprehension of the course material. Duplication of others' work is both a disservice to your own education and a serious violation of the university's academic honesty policy.
Grades: Problem sets and daily problems will account for 40% of your grade, the midterm examinations will each be worth 15%, and the final examination will be worth 30%. A 90% overall guarantees a grade of A–, 80% guarantees a B–, and 70% guarantees a C–.
Daily problems:
Solutions to the daily problems should be written in full sentences; while symbolic expressions can be used, they should be connected by written exposition. Solutions should be legible and grammatical, and are due at the beginning of class. You may find it useful to type your solutions, although doing so is not necessary.
Problem Set #1, due on Friday, September 14
Solutions to short problems
Due August 27: Let A={1,{1,2},3,{2,5}}, and let B={3,{1,2}}. By explicitly listing out the elements, calculate |A| and |B|. Explain why it is the case that B is a subset of A. What does the fact that B⊆A tell you about the relationship between |B| and |A|, and why?
Due August 29: Give a short explanation in words of what each of the following symbolic statements means, and why it must be true. Below, the letters A and B represent arbitrary sets — do not appeal to specific examples!
A∈P(A)
(A-B)∩B=∅set;
Due August 31: Translate the following written statements to symbolic logic, and use a truth table to determine the circumstances under which each is true. Below, P, Q, and R represent named statements.
"P is not true, or both P and Q are true."
"If either P or Q is true, then Q is not true."
"It is not the case that if both P and Q are true, then either Q or R is true."
Due September 5: For each of the following true implications, write out its converse and contrapositive in words (Indicate which is which when you write them). Determine whether the converse is generally true, and briefly justify your determination.
If A is a subset of B, then A is an element of the power set of B.
If n is an even number larger than 2, then n is not prime.
Due September 7: The following statements are from a classical syllogism of Lewis Carroll. Translate each of them into symbolic logic with quantifiers, using the following names for things: let A be the set of ducks, P(x) the proposition "x belongs to Mrs. Bond", Q(x) the proposition "x is branded with a 'B'", R(x) the proposition "x is gray", and S(x) the proposition "x is wearing a lace collar".
All ducks branded with a 'B' belong to Mrs. Bond.
Ducks never wear lace collars, unless they are branded with a 'B'.
Mrs. Bond has no gray ducks.
Using the symbolic logic above, what can be said about a gray duck? Justify your assertion.
Due September 10: Perform the following steps in order to prove the statement: "The product of two odd numbers is an odd number."
Rephrase this assertion as an implication, giving the unknown quantities names. Identify what part of your rewritten assertion is the premise and what part is the conclusion.
Assume that the premise is true, and use known definitions to convert the premise to an arithmetical statement.
Use arithmetic to explore the statement you have derived from your premise, and use a known definition to show that the conclusion follows.
Due September 12: Prove if a product of two integers is not even, then neither of the two factors are even. You will want to restate the above as an implication and use a contrapositive technique, but be very careful about how you negate things! (Also, note that, at this point in the course, we have not shown — and you cannot assume — that "not even" and "odd" are the same thing)
Due September 17: Prove that if n is an integer, then either 4|n2 or 4|(n2-1).
Due September 19: Prove that if n, k, a, and b are integers such that k|n and a≡b (mod n), then a≡b (mod k).
Due September 21: Prove formally (i.e., do not simply appeal to a Venn diagram) that for sets A and B, it is the case that A∪B=(A-B)∪(B-A)∪(A∩B).
Due September 24: Prove that there is no smallest positive real number.
Due September 26: Prove that for an irrational number α and a real number x, it is the case that either α+x or α-x is irrational.
Due September 28: Disprove and suggest an improvement to this statement: if n is a natural number, then 3|(2n2+1).
Due October 1: Let A, B, and C be sets such that A⊆B⊆C, and let us consider the possible sets S such that B∩S=A and B∪S=C. It is clear that at least one set satisfies this condition, namely, S=A∪(C-B). Prove that set is unique—i.e., there is no other set S such that B∩S=A and B∪S=C. (Hint; assume two such sets S and T exist and show that S⊆T; by symmetry you can then show that T⊆S and thus S=T).
Due October 3: Prove that for any positive integer n, it is the case that 1(21)+2(22)+3(23)+…+n(2n)=(2n-2)2n+2.
Due October 15: Let the sequence of values an be given by the recurrence relation a1=2, a2=5, and an=3an-1+4an-2 for n≥3. Using this recurrence, determine the values of a3 and a4 (showing your work). Then prove that an has the formula 0.05(7×4n-12(-1)n).
Due October 17: Let F1=1, F2=1, and Fn=Fn-1+Fn-2 for all n≥q;3. Prove that for any positive integer n, Fn is even if and only if n is divisible by 3. (hint: make the statement being inductively proven include both parts of the "if-and-only-if" assertion).
Due October 19: For each of the two following relations, determine if they are reflexive, symmetric, and/or transitive. Briefly give reasons for the properties you assert are true; give a counterexample for those which are false.
The relation of "being a proper subset (written with ⊂ or ⊊)" on the power set of the natural numbers (example usage: {1,3,4}⊊{1,2,3,4,6}).
The relation R on the rational numbers given by the criterion that xRy iff either x=2y, x=y, or x=y/2 (example usage: the relation 6R3 is true, since 6=2×3, while 2R7 is not true, as 7 is not equal to 4, 2, or 1).
Due October 22: Let the relation R on the set {1,2,3,…,100} be defined by making xRy iff ⌊x/3⌋=⌊y/3⌋ (note that the "floor function" ⌊z⌋ is the value of z rounded down to the next integer; for instance, ⌊8/3⌋=2, and ⌊9/3⌋=3). Prove that R is an equivalence relation, and describe its equivalence classes.
Due October 24: Write multiplication tables for Z6 and Z7. Determine which elements of Z6 and Z7 it makes sense to consider "dividing by".
Due October 26: For each of the following three functions from R to R, determine, with a brief justification, whether it is injective but not surjective, surjective but not injective, neither surjective nor injective, or both surjective and injective:
The function f determined by the rule f(x)=2x3.
The function g determined by the rule g(x)=x2–3.
The function h determined by the rule h(x)=ex.
2 point bonus problem! The above three functions fit into three of the four categories given above. Find a function from R to R fitting into the fourth category (or assert that it is impossible), and justify your claim.
Due October 29: For a finite set A, we have known since early in the course that the power set of A has 2|A| elements. Note that the set of functions {0,1}A also has 2|A| elements. Describe a straightforward correspondence between the functions from A to {0,1} and the subsets of A. Does this correspondence still make sense if A is infinite?
Due October 31: Given an injection f:A→B, explain how a surjection g:B→A could be constructed. For a∈A, is it generally true that g(f(a))=a? For b∈B, is it generally true that f(g(b))=b?
Due November 2: We saw on the very first PotD that if A and B are finite with A⊆B, it is true that |A|≤|B|. Prove that it's true for all sets—not just the finite ones!
Due November 5: Construct (and describe) a bijection f between the set of natural numbers N and the set of ordered pairs of natural numbers N2 (hint: you can use a geometric intuition; try to associate each lattice point in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane with a different integer). Illustrate that your construction works by specifically calculating, as an example, f(15)$ and f-1((5,4)) (i.e. find which natural number n gives f(n)=(5,4)$.). What does your construction tell you about the comparative number of elements in N and N2?
Due November 7: Prove that for (not necessarily finite!) sets A, B, C, and D, if |A|≤|C| and |B|≤|D|, then |A×B|≤|C×D|.
Due November 12: A "phrase" is a finite sequence consisting of any of the 26 English letters and spaces. So, for instance, "i like pie" is a phrase, as is "this phrase has several consecutive spaces". Prove (most easily done by describing a procedure which lists every single phrase) that the number of phrases is countably infinite.
Due November 14: Let A be an uncountable set and B be a countable set. Prove that A–B is uncountable.
Due November 26 (extra special 5-bonus-points PotD!): Let "1-3-4" Nim be a traditional Nim game in which there is a single pile of objects (stones or pennies or whatnot) and each player takes away 1, 3, or 4 objects on their turn. The player who removes the last object wins. Explore several small games of 1-3-4 Nim and determine which states one can win from; conjecture a general-winning-state criterion and prove it.
Due November 28 Here let ⊕ represent the Nimsum described in class. Prove that if N=a1⊕a2⊕…⊕an, then (a1⊕N)⊕a2⊕…⊕an=0. You may use the following universally true facts without proof: a⊕b=b⊕a, (a⊕b)⊕c=a⊕(b⊕c), a⊕0=a, and a⊕a=0.
Due November 30 We have seen that a position in traditional classic Nim is winning if and only if the nimsum is nonzero. Find and briefly explain the reasoning behind a winning condition on the nimsum for misere classic Nim (i.e. classic Nim where removing the last piece results in a loss rather than a win).
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Flag of Sunset
Motto: "Liberty Above All"
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7.1 Administration
7.2 Education
7.3 Defense
7.4 Law and Order
7.5 Commerce
7.6 Secretariat
9 International Organisations
11 External Contact
From the Encyclopedia Sunset:
Sunset is one of the largest and most powerful nations that currently exists. Much of this power is due to their position as one of the pre-eminent nations of Mars and a justified reputation as one of the most reasonable and rational nations to deal with on the international scene. This reputation does not come un-backed by military might or economic power; with a frightening economy and a top ranked military the government has the power to back up words with deeds.
The nation of Sunset was a result in large part of the commercial space transportation industry that took off in the early 21st century. After the X Prize competition and it's successors fueled humanity's surge into space a group of lucky lottery winners pooled their winnings and used them to fund their own attempt to colonize Mars. These adventurers, mostly from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, first moved to fledgling Lunar colonies and then made the long trek to Mars itself.
They settled in the Valles Marineris region and began building their first habitats in the giant canyon itself. As population pressures, renewed wars, and rampant plagues began to encompass Earth they were joined by more and more brave souls who wanted to both ensure humanity's survival and a place for it among the stars. This slow immigration became a torrent as more and more people left Earth and fled to the new frontier until there were nearly five million people in the Valles Marineris region alone. Sufficiency achieved and with a desire to cut ties with unstable Earth governments they came together and formed the Republic of Sunset.
This was the beginning of the isolationist period of Sunset history. Many other nations formed, fell, and vanished on the Red Planet for the next three centuries as the people of Sunset grew, expanded, and advanced in relative peace and quiet. An early communal government evolved as corporations were formed and capital began to condense into the hands of a relative few. This led to first a familiar democratic system then as corporations provided more and more of their employee’s daily needs taxes were removed until now few remain.
Finally the nation emerged from isolation as war again enveloped the Red Planet. At first it was a spectator as the forces of Tor Yvresse and Os Sanglants fought with NGEN and Melkor Unchained and then as relations developed it grew more involved. Planetary terraforming was underway and it arranged to provide funding for this to their neighbor to the north, Eniqcir. Allies were found in the Eldar of Tor Yvresse - their first non-human contact - and the two searched the planet for signs of the Necron along with the fledgling Knootoss space forces. Word came of a planned attack by a nation known as Sephiroth and it's destruction at the hands of the Triumvirate of Yut. It was this incident which would bring the nation into the international community.
It was at this point that President Eric Thorgardson, often called the greatest of Sunset's Presidents, looked to the stars and saw both hope for the future as well as a sea of potential threats. In a series of events contact was established with the nation of Scolopendra and the rest of the Triumvirate of Yut. After a period in which the Martian nation got to know the nations of the Triumvirate it applied for and was accepted as a member nation. This point marks Sunset's first major appearance on the world stage and the bright future it would work toward.
Many things have changed since that time. Presidents have come and gone. Generations of starships have been created, built, and relegated to mothball fleets. Hundreds of millions and then billions of people have been born and have died in a nation that believes strongly that all should have the liberty to do as they desire and that this, intertwined with the twin concepts of free will and personal responsibility, is the best way to continue forward.
Much of Sunset society revolves around it's major industries and government priorities. Information technology in one form or another is everywhere in Sunset and the average person interacts with it nearly constantly. Nearly 95% of the population spends at least 60% of their time in a virtual environment of some kind. Businesses, schools, entertainment and the government all have the majority of their presence in the system-wide networks (SolNet, C-Space, etc).
This environment is literally used for everything. The gambling industry has most of their operations in here with lotteries, competitive sports, and games of chance being the most popular. The publishing industry also has much of it's activity in here with writers, artists, and similar creators able to collaborate with individuals on Earth, in Saturn space, all around Mars, and even in distant out-system colonies. Sunset is one of the premier sources for virtual environments with a majority being educational, tactical, stragetic, or commercial designs. Even the top-ranked manufacturing and resource extraction sectors accomplish much of their labor in virtual space. With the rise of robot factories and robots that can fix robots many workers simply access their jobs from the comfort of their own homes.
Unfortunately the heavy usage of the virtual world has a tremendous downside and that is the health of the average citizen. Physical activity and it's healthy aspects are avoided by all except the wealthy and the military. The expected lifespan of the average citizen is not much more than it was in the 20th century although for those that can afford it an extremely long life is possible. This has also resulted in a significant decline in the birth rate among the human population and the widespread use of personal cloning in order to reproduce.
The military is a different story. With a scant .25% of the population enlisted and a retirement rate in the range of 2% the military can afford to be picky. It also receives the best and the brightest - it pays more than the average, gives them the opportunity to work with technology generations ahead of the civilian sector, and see new things that might never make their way into the latest virtual environment. Training is rigorous with a high washout rate for even those destined for a logistical or maintenance posting. There are only a scant half-million front line openings and these have the highest demand as the sharp end is also the most interesting. Training is brutal with the frequent comment that live combat is often easier if more nerve-wracking.
A significant portion of the population of Sunset is now made up of non-humans. This shift has been due in large part to the gradual absorption of several former allied sovereignties due to government dissolution. Notable among these are the Therian, reptilian bipeds from the nation of Kinslayer, ArAreBeen's from the corporate state of New ArAreBee, and Foxgirls from the solar federation of Ravenspire. While the loss of their allies is unfortunate Sunset has seen this as a blessing in disguise. The periodic influx of non-humans has made up for the rapidly declining human birth rate.
These are not the only 'alien' species to call Sunset home however. Neko, various species of Elves, Trilats, Artificial Intelligences, Aquafor, Otterkin, and dozens of other major and minor races are all citizens. Most are the result of the exploration arm of the SDF, the Sunset Exploration Command (SEC), and it's fleets of exploratory starships. Some were rescued from dying worlds, others snuck aboard, and still others have immigrated to Sunset or Triumvirate colony worlds and moved from there to Mars.
The AI's and Trilat's are both unique in that they are the only 'created' species of Sunset. All Sunset AI's are non-deliberately evolved systems that are a product of the ubiquitous Instinctive Intelligence cores used in both military and civilian applications. These learning systems have a tendency to become self-aware as they are presented with more and more information and are growing increasingly common in Sunset. Trilats on the other hand were not as much a 'created' race as a revived race. Genetic information taken from a preserved corpse was successfully replicated and the race was reintroduced until they now make up a recognizable percentage of the population.
It should be noted that Sunset has a very pro-sentient stance. Free will applies to anything that can exercise that trait - thus II systems that achieve sentience must be allowed to leave their job, be removed from their current body, and be considered a regular citizen. The same is true of alien species that can be proved to exercise free will.
Most of the population of Sunset no longer resides on Mars but rather on a number of different colony worlds far outside the Solar System. Many of these colony worlds are joint efforts by the various nations in the Triumvirate of Yut thus while only a few hundred million citizens of Sunset might reside on a given world the actual population might be in the billions. Usually these worlds and their locations are kept secret due to the attention the Triumvirate recieves from more aggressive and combative nations.
Vallis Marineris
The Vallis super-arcology and it's surrounding areas can be considered the heart of Sunset. It is the oldest and most built-up area of Sunset with a population that floats around 1.5 billion. About 1/10th live in the Vallis super-arcology that runs along the upper walls and cliffsides of the vast canyon. The rest reside in a wide variety of different arcologies scattered around the region with nearly all being a varient of sub-surface installation. As part of it's re-commitment to Martian terraforming this area, about 4.1 million square kilometers, is undergoing a steady transformation from a barren rocky desert to a cell-based terraformed environment.
New ArAreBee
Due to continued corporate instability and an opportunity for profit the central government corporation of the nation of New ArAreBee was purchased by the Sunset corporation CityDome in a leveraged buyout. Because CityDome owns CenGovCo and CityDome is a corporation headquartered in Sunset with the majority of it's assets residing there the land that CenGovCo manages is effectively sovereign Sunset territory. This does not apply to the majority of the residents of New ArAreBee however as most are citizens of various micro-sovereignties. Some have chosen to become Sunset citizens in order to enjoy it's more robust legal protections but this is currently less than 2% of the total population. The ArAreBee territories are home to approximately 6.3 billion sentients with only around 200 million being Sunset citizens.
Sslaa IV
One of the few public colony worlds, Sslaa IV is located in the star system Sslaa which is considered to be the territory of Sunset's Triumvirate ally the Herpetological Empire of Sakkra. A vast water world the Sunset colonies here are vast floating colonies shaped like red blood cells. These float on the waves and constantly drift around the entire planet making it a popular vacation and retirement destination. Several hundred million citizens call Sslaa IV home.
The common nature of the name aside, Atlantis is a moon located in the GEC-42 system which had been wholely transformed into a playground for the rich and famous. The system itself is the site of the Joint Martian Colonies. Each Martian nation can lay claim to one of the moons of the largest gas giant Ferrum and do with it what they wish. Less than fifty million people reside on the moon itself with another ten million or so scattered between dozens of huge mining fortresses that slowly scour the system of it's resources.
Phobos and Deimos
Though a variety of methods Sunset has come to control both of the Martian moons. Deimos was owned and populated by the former nation of Ravenspire and as an allied nation Sunset took control of it when it's government dissolved. Most of the moon is covered by the vast University of Deimos, a Ravenspire research university. Aside from the university it is also home to a number of allied military bases. Phobos, the smaller of the two moons, was taken over after it's former occupant, Mallberta, vanished in a possible Singularity event. The Sunset government has removed and presumably destroyed the hive-mind technology that Mallberta had installed there and has turned the moon into a leased mooring station.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of corporations, holding companies, private businesses, and conglomerates in Sunset but there are a few that stand out and that frequently come up when conducting trade with Sunset. Most have at least some government investment and some manufacture government materials under contract. These are also the best companies to direct external government contracts through as they have a well deserved reputation for both quality work and tight lips.
Liquid Design LLC
Liquid has long been the major designer for the Sunset Defense Force and has been the driving force behind the major design elements of SDF warships. They are also a designer of civilian and corporate ships and have been known to occasional contract a military design for a foreign ally. While they don't produce the ships themselves they maintain close ties to the various ship manufacturers and can sub-contract the manufacturing as part of an existing contract.
GravShip City
GravShip City sells GravShips at factory prices direct to you. They have a variety of locations to serve you better and are well known for their wide selection by top manufacturers. Just Remember: Buy Nine GravShips and Get the Tenth for Just One Penny!
GravShip City operates a wide-spread chain of virtual storefronts across Mars as well as several showrooms inside Sunset. About half of the GravShips for sale are manufactured by Sunset corporations but they also have dealings with many international corporations, most based in the Triumvirate or the NDA.
PenguinTek
PenguinTek is one of the most popular small arms manufacturers in Sunset. They make an extremely wide range of weapons from disposable handguns and submachine guns to military grade long arms and support weapons. Notably they provide the SDF with their ever-evolving personal weapon systems. While these are not generally available to outside governments or even in the Sol system knock-offs with half the features are frequently passed off as the real thing in Sol and elsewhere.
Silaco Electronics
Silaco Electronics is the advanced robotics manufacturing and design firm owned by Erika Silaco. SE, as it's commonly known, produces everything from animatronic children’s toys to advanced robots for manufacturing to full humanoid construction robots. Most of their products are available throughout the Sol system though the most advanced systems are only available to Triumvirate companies and militaries.
Heran Land Holdings
National and corporate groups looking to purchase land with existing infrastructure have long relied on HLH to provide that. Heran specializes in the sale of whole archaeologies to small and medium sized groups who want to establish a diplomatic or trade presence without undergoing a long negotiation process. Heran has been the company behind most of the sovereign territory transfers involving Sunset territory. Due to its government association it is only authorized to deal with entities allied or friendly to the Sunset government.
Interested parties should check their affiliation and direct any inquiries directly to Heran for initial consultation.
CityDome
CityDome is the single largest arcology government corporation in Sunset and perhaps on Mars. Unlike Heran they specialize in the ownership and government of occupied arcologies instead of construction and sales. CityDome is also the first and only Sunset mega corporation to 'own' an entire country. When the corporate sovereignty of New ArAreBee was in economic crisis CityDome seized the initiative and initiated a takeover bid. In a brief proxy war it gained control of CentGovCo, the central government corporation that ran New ArAreBee. It has since spun off several of CentGovCo's subsidiaries or sold them to other interests but it retains control over the primary portions of CentGovCo and especially it's notoriously mercenary military branch.
Hendrik Bros
Hendrik Bros is the single largest privately held company in Sunset. Owned and operated by the direct descendants of the original Hendrik brothers the company focuses on resource extraction, refining, and large scale manufacturing using those same resources. Most of it's products are the frieghters, large and small, that move most of the manufacturered goods and resources between the outsystem colonys.
While the government has gone through many changes most were steps along the way to the form it holds today; A minimalist republic that allows complete individual freedoms while defending those freedoms, making sure others do not abuse their freedoms to infringe on those of others, and giving all citizens the chance to succeed.
The government is organized as a representative republic with all citizens having the right to vote. The citizens elect one hundred senators with twenty five replaced every year. The senate selects the president who serves purely at the whim of the senate. The president's job is to handle foreign affairs both diplomatic and military. The senate is divided into four divisions by their funding percentage - Education (35), Defense (50), Law and Order (8), and Commerce (7). Administration costs fall under their divisions.
Education is one of the few areas where the government provides a service directly to the citizens. Tax di-coins are placed in a fund with each citizen able to withdraw a percentage from that fund to pay for any education they wish. Citizens negotiate tuition with private schools and pay them from this amount. The government does not exercise any control over content and the success of any school is up to the marketplace. The Sunset Exploration Command is partially funded and controlled by the Education Division along with the Defense Division. Berths on the ships of the SEC and access to their facilities is allowed and encouraged among nations allied to Sunset. The government also has a generous inter-ally education program that allowed allied citizens to study at Sunset schools and universities if Sunset citizens are allowed the same matching funds and school access by the host nation.
"To Secure Peace One Must Prepare For War" is a statement taken to heart in Sunset. The largest portion of government spending goes to fund the Sunset Defense Force and of this nearly 95% goes to the space fleet. This partially includes the Sunset Exploration Command and all of the Marine force. The remaining money is allocated to external intelligence spending and embassies and their staff as well as research and development in cooperation with the Education Division.
While the nation has one of the highest per-capita defense spending many have remarked on the relatively small size of the military compared to similar sized nations. Military enlistment is fixed at 10 million with the vast majority in support roles. There are 200,000 marines, 300,000 starship crew members, and the other 9.5 million are in logistics, research and development, intelligence, planning, and maintenance roles. This is part of the focus on a smaller military that uses bleeding-edge technology, extensive training, and an extremely high level of preparedness to be ready to fight anywhere, anytime.
Law and Order spending in Sunset covers many different areas. This portion of the budget covers police services, civil defense, planetary defense, and internal intelligence. The Law and Order division works closely with the Defense division as many of their duties overlap. In many ways they are separate branches of a larger division with the main difference being that the president is the direct leader of the Defense division while Law and Order is handled by the Senate.
Law enforcement is handled by a very small group of individuals - in fact percentage-wise it is one of the smallest police forces among all nations. These highly trained and dedicated men and women spend much of their time focusing on crime prevention with education as well as appropriate punishment being the key. Few criminals in Sunset are repeat offenders with most being youth who commit crimes for kicks, are caught, punished, and quickly learn that crime indeed does not pay. One of the key elements of this system is the punishment method. After observing the failure of the prison system as used in the 20th century to prevent crime it was decided to revert to an older system of punishment. In cases of theft, the most common crime, criminals are forced to repay the property owner three times the value of the item stolen. This is done in a variety of methods but the process usually only happens once. Other crimes are handled in a similar method and while this might seem harsh for some crimes it has served to make Sunset one of the safest and most crime free nations around.
Much of the spending of the commerce and trade divisions goes to speed commerce inside Sunset. Low interest loans to construction companies speed the development of infrastructure while loans to communications companies allow them to keep up with the ever increasing demand. The trade and commerce division also invests heavily in new sectors of the economy with much of the investment going into high tech areas where advancements will help the nation as a whole to move ahead.
The commerce division is also one of the main sources of income for the government. Investments in business stocks produce a strong return that is then both re-invested and also spent on different areas as per the needs of the government. This does tie government income to the business sector in a large way but this has been true of any government system. Diverse holdings keep the impact of a slump in a single industry from affecting the whole.
The Secretariat is a recent addition to the government and a controversial one. It is essentially a group of advisors to the President who handle individual areas of the President's duties. They are empowered by the President to act as them in certain circumstances. Currently there are only a few Secretaries but as the positions are created by the President directly more could be created at any time. This has created a small bureaucracy within the bureaucracy that is only accountable to the President. Since it also includes some senior members of both the military and the Senate this is seen as an essentially unaccountable branch of government by certain members of the Senate.
Foreign Affairs - Ambassador K'ym'ko (No Picture)
K'ym'ko is the replacement for the popular but silly Ambassador Penguin who has been re-assigned elsewhere. The Ambassador is a trilat, a species resurrected by cloning in the early days of the Republic. An intellectual technocrat, K'ym'ko is charged with stablizing the Martian Sphere and reinforcing Sunset's extranational position.
Special Projects - Katryna Silaco (Picture)
Not much is known of either Katryna Silaco or the Special Projects Secretariat except that presumably Katryna is related to Erika and that she handles Special Projects. According to government records she has never visited Sol and prefers to spend her time in the colonies.
Commercial Ventures - L'la G'hranola (Picture)
Ms. G'hranola is a definate out-of-towner who was chosen to head the Secretariat of Commercial Ventures. This branch of the government, based on Mars, was recently established to engage in economic activities compatable with current government services. Her official dossier lists her as the former head of TransHuman Genomics but no such corporation is registered in Sunset and her species is essentially unknown in Sol.
Mars Command (SDFMarsCom) - Admiral David Edge (Picture)
Admiral Edge is the head of the SDF on Mars and is the most frequent source of contact between SDFMarsCom and other national militaries. While not a Secretariat position the head of SDFMarsCom is on-par with that position and is usually included in any decision making processes.
Martian Affairs - Ambassador Demi Love (Picture)
Sunset's official envoy to the Duma and MPA Ms. Love is also in charge of Sunset's relations with it's oldest Martian ally, Mangala. While Ambassador Penguin is on hand for the most important discussions she is always there for when he is off-planet.
0 Division - Admiral Fidelo Villanova (Picture)
There is no 0 Division. 0 Division is not a special para-military organization that draws from the regular SDF. Nor does it act as the tactical arm of Special Projects and SDFIntel. Fidelo Villanova is simply an ex-President who retired and moved out-system and occasionally acts as an envoy for the Republic.
Much of Sunset's political and commercial activities are tied to two overlapping spheres - Mars and the Triumvirate of Yut.
As the oldest nation on Mars the government feels a large responsibility towards the planet and helping it to stay a system power. Much of this is accomplished through encouraging colonization by reasonable and stable nations and by discouraging settlement by violent and warlike nations. While not directly participating in the terraforming of the planet the government does fund many of the terraforming projects inside it's borders and across the globe in an effort to make the world more and more habitable.
The Triumvirate of Yut is both the source of some of Sunset's power as well as the source of much of the government's worries. While membership has given much needed clout in the international community it has also made the nation a target of irrational aggression in some cases. Still the government and the people of Sunset are ardent supporters of the Triumvirate and feel that it helps lead the way to a better universe year after year.
Triumvirate of Yut - Member
Martian Duma - Founding Member
Martian Free Trade Agreement - Founding Member
Sunset's Official Website
UN Rankings - No Longer Maintained.
Sunset's Economy Statistics Calculator.
The Official Map of Mars - Maintained by Kajal.
Sunset on NationStates
The Planet Mars Forums - Moderated by Sunset and Mangala
External Contact
Sunset can frequently be found in the NationStates IRC channel on irc.esper.net, #nationstates. E-mail can be sent to Sunset at the sunsetrpg.com domain.
Assertions made in this document are based on Sunset's UN Rankings cross-referenced with the regular XML information.
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Koramangala elevated road faces uncertainty; When developers don’t give up CA sites; BBMP wants term extended
January 29, 2015 News Desk
Bengaluru this week
CITIZEN MATTERS
Bangalore’s own interactive newsmagazine
Speak up, it’s your city!
City news that matters
Before we get into our stories, here is a short summary of what happened in the city.
BBMP has begun the construction of an open air theatre under Domlur flyover at a cost of 40 lakhs. The theatre can accommodate up to 500 people and will also have a Bangalore One centre.
BMRCL is in talks with the Forest Department to acquire 4.97 hectares of forest land near Devika Rani Roerich estate on Kanakpura Road for a planned depot for the metro. This will be the first time that forest land is being acquired for the Metro project.
BESCOM officials have told the High Court that unless alternate land is made available, they are in no position to shift electricity transformers from footpaths as it will adversely affect consumers.
Bengaluru Police have arrested a suspected Bodo militant who was allegedly involved in a recent killing of six tribals in Assam. He was carrying a phone with an preactivated, unverified SIM card. The police have also filed a case against Vodafone India and seven distributors for duplicating genuine customers’ documents to create a fake identities to issue SIM cards.
Bengaluru is all set to get its longest train route to Katra at the foothills of the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir. The Yeshwantpur-Katra Express will cover a distance of 3,246 km in 56 hours and 40 minutes.
Of the 24 cases of H1N1 or swine flu reported in Karnataka since the beginning of 2015, 15 are from within Bengaluru alone. While the Health Department has said that there is no reason for alarm, it has asked people to take precautions and not ignore any symptoms.
Close to a year after the Upa Lokayukta directed BWSSB to set up a sewage treatment plant at Puttenahalli Lake in Yelahanka, the lake has become more polluted than before due to a stormwater drain carrying sewage from areas around 5th and 6th phase.
ECA International’s has pegged Bengaluru at rank 171 in the global liveability index for expatriates. Mumbai and Chennai follow behind, both at rank 182.
Ola Cabs is on the verge of buying its former rival Taxi For Sure, in a move to take on Uber. The deal is likely to be finalised in the next ten days and is said to be pegged at a whopping Rs 1,250 crore.
This week’s highlight: When layout developers don’t give up Civic Amenities sites
» The Revised Master Plan 2015 states that the 45% of the total land area in a layout needs to be reserved for civic amenities. In response to a lawsuit filed by Classic Orchards Property Owners Association, the High Court has said that BDA must get unrelinquished CA sites from layouts.
» It is likely that the elevated road project from Ejipura to Kendriya Sadan, will not be providing a respite to commuters anytime soon. The project which was approved last year has been taken off the JNNURM scheme. Read: Centre withdraws JNNURM funds sanctioned for Ejipura-Kendriya Sadan elevated road.
» BBMP councillors don’t want bureaucrats’ rule in Bengaluru in case the elections are postponed. A unanimous resolution passed by BBMP wanted an extension of Council’s tenure in case polls are delayed. Read: BBMP to ask state to extend council’s term by 6 months.
» Bengaluru-based Citizen Action Forum (CAF) wants the government to delink the BBMP elections from the restructuring process. Read: Govt will use BBMP division as an excuse to delay polls.
Survey: How much are you paying for your water?
» Anirudh Rajashekar, a masters student from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and IIM Bangalore’s CRERI group are collaborating on a research study involving private water tankers. Please take the survey – How much do you pay for water?
Three lucky respondents will go home with PVR tickets!
Of trees and flowers
» The Neralu Urban Tree Festival will be spread across three major parks of the city this year. Read:Lalbagh, Cubbon Park, Basavangudi to witness Bengaluru’s tree festival.
» Peepal trees form the places of memory and cultural value, even in a metropolitan city like Bengaluru. Read: Ashwatha Katte as a community space
» With online ticketing and drones that spotted a fire, the 10 day flower exhibition at Lalbagh was certainly a notch above the previous editions. Read: Flowery Red Fort and musical instruments steal hearts at Lalbagh.
Managing waste and garbage wisely
» Unable to bear the filth accumulating in the plot next to their house, Josephine Joseph and her family cleaned it and put up something to keep litterers at bay. Read: Using the tricolour where images of god fail!
» Need to dispose of bulbs, CFLS, tube lights, batteries and other electronic parts? Hasiru Dala is organising an e-waste pickup drive at Bellandur on February 9th. That and more in the Bellandur Buzz newsletter.
» The times they are a-changin’? We sure hope so. Deepa Mohan shares a picture from Bannerghatta National Park which we hope is inspiration enough for others to follow. Read: Welcome sight in Bannerghatta.
» Ashwin Mahesh shares some food for thought this Republic Day on citizenship. He opines that the most useful input to public problem solving is not ‘quantum of time’ or ‘money’, but persistence. Read: It’s time to celebrate citizenship.
Watch 9 Mois Ferme, a César Award nominated French comedy film at Alliance Francaise on January 29th.
Bhoomi College is organising a workshop on Organic Gardening on January 31st. This workshop will help you apply the basic principles of gardening to your home, apartment or terrace.
Take your children to the Banyan Tree Festival to be held at Pestalozzi Children’s Village Machohalli on January 31st and join them as they take part in a multitude of activities including kite flying, storytelling and paper bag making.
Jagriti is playing host to the world premier of the play Stalowa Wola, a story about a man who goes on a journey in search of his dead wife’s ghost on January 30th and 31st and February 1st.
Another activity for children – Little Cloud Storytelling Time for kids between four and six years. This will start on February 1st and go on until March at Ranga Shankara.
Sign up for Unhurried’s Basavanagudi Heritage Homes Walk and go back in time to a bygone era of Bangalore on February 1st.
Enthrall your senses to an enchanting evening of music and dance at From Classical Music to Flamenco, at Alliance Francaise on February 1st.
You can also have a look at the complete listing of events coming up in Bengaluru here.
Bengaluru and Seattle: sister cities or polar opposites?
July 27, 2016 Kate Clark
Bengaluru has lost its old charm, so has Seattle. In Bengaluru, people blame the government for the mess, while in Seattle, migrants are blamed!
‘Angels in the smoke’
March 3, 2011 Yogaraj S Mudalgi
The three men chose to be firemen and the award given by the ‘Beyond Carlton’ Trust has only reinforced their love for their profession.
Learning for Bengaluru from Manchester and Bradford master plans
March 20, 2017 Pierre Chahine
Problems faced in Manchester and Bradford are similar to that of Bengaluru, the difference is in the scale? What can the city learn from the planning process in these two England cities?
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genesis 38:1-11
Judah and Tamar
38It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. 2There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her. 3She conceived and bore a son; and he named him Er. 4Again she conceived and bore a son whom she named Onan. 5Yet again she bore a son, and she named him Shelah. She* was in Chezib when she bore him. 6Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar. 7But Er, Judahs firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death. 8Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brothers wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her; raise up offspring for your brother. 9But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brothers wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother. 10What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also. 11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Remain a widow in your fathers house until my son Shelah grows upfor he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her fathers house.
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Roster Recap: Joe Kelly is Incredibly Average
by Cam Ellis November 29, 2017
Joe Kelly was an extremely average pitcher last season. That’s all you need to know about him, because he was also an okay pitcher the year before, and has presumably settled into the player he’s going to be for his career, so I’m telling you that it’s not an exaggeration – he really is that average.
Kelly throws hard – really, really hard – but still doesn’t provide much value considering how fast he is able to throw, even if it is really fast. But for those who simply cannot go on with their day without knowing more, let’s dive in:
WHAT WENT RIGHT
Let’s ignore the (lack of) strikeouts for now – they’ve never been Kelly’s strong suit. To his credit, he did manage to improve in lots of other aspects of his game. For starters, he lowered his ERA and FIP significantly, and I don’t clearly need to tell you that’s a good thing, even if that meant only going from a 4.32 FIP in 2016 to a 3.49 FIP. His ERA, which was hanging around 5 last season, dropped to around 2, which looks impressive in spite of luck playing into that a lot. He also did a better job keeping the ball in the park, dropping his HR/FB rate 10 percentage points this year. He was, however slightly, a better pitcher this season than the one before. That improvement came at the cost of his sinker, which got the silent treatment, as he stopped throwing it entirely. It’s curious why Kelly totally moved away from a pitch that represented half of his repertoire at one point, but that’s for a different time:
Examine Kelly’s fastballs over the last two seasons and you’ll clearly see how much he’s abandoned his sinker. Even in above-average seasons, his sinker was never that useful a pitch, so abandoning it was probably in the best interests of the team and Kelly. And the fans. And everyone.
Another thing that went right for Kelly this year was the uptick in his speed, something that you undoubtedly heard four thousand times whenever Kelly pitched this year. He’s clearly establishing a trend over his career:
Up until recently, it always seemed like improved numbers were going to follow Kelly’s improved velocity. Throwing forcefully while being mostly ineffective has always been Joe Kelly’s game, so watching him rear back and throw some fire doesn’t exactly bring the same excitement as it does with other guys in the triple-digits club.
There’s a good pitcher somewhere in Kelly, maybe even a great one – he just hasn’t figured out how he fits into a major league pitching staff yet. He’s not a starter, and he’s definitely not a closer. He was best as a reliever in medium-leverage situations, which is about as unhelpful a statistic as you can find on the internet. He was somewhat tough on righties this year, tallying a 2.82 FIP with a strikeout rate at 20 percent and a walk rate below five percent. Kelly’s ceiling might be a hard-throwing righty specialist, which leads into…
Strikeouts! Or lack of them, more specifically. Kelly continues to baffle people by throwing 103 miles per hour and not being able to strike a single person out. He threw 58 innings this year and finished with a just-barely-average strikeout rate (21.9). That number was always destined to go down from last year, however, as his uptick in strikeouts in 2016 was always more of a red herring than anything. He also continued to walk batters at a staggeringly high rate (11.3 walk rate, 4.19 BB/9). Frankly, the Red Sox already have a hard-throwing righty who struggles with control, and that’s Matt Barnes. Kelly’s going to have a hard time finding innings for himself when he projects as a back-end power arm that can’t strike people out. Carson Smith, Tyler Thornburg, and Barnes are all currently better choices for the 7th and 8th innings.
What you’ll see a lot of:
100 mph pitches, walks
jokes about him on Twitter
occasional cameos in the Win, Dance, Repeat routine
What you won’t see a lot of:
clean innings
appearances in high-leverage situations
Like I mentioned at the top, Kelly is what he is. At 30 years old with 600 innings under his belt, it’s hard to imagine that Kelly turns into much of anything different. Since he became a reliever, Red Sox fans have been waiting for him to settle into his role and become that reliable backend arm, and it just hasn’t happened. In fact, given that Kelly ran a .252 BABIP this year (by far the lowest of his career), it’s not inconceivable that Kelly’s numbers would regress next year. He’s a free agent at the end of next season, so Kelly’s clearly inclined to put together a career year. If he doesn’t though, it’s not hard to see the Red Sox moving on in 2019.
Photo by David Kohl – USA TODAY Sports
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Horace Fury
I wonder if the Cubs would trade OF/2B Ian Happ from their alleged surplus for injured E-Rod, one year of Joe Kelly (who came from that division), and a couple of low/high A lottery tickets. Then Happ goes right in at 2B when the season starts, takes over as 4th OF when Brentz craps outs again, and does some DH to keep Hanley’s PAs down. Now that I’ve typed that sentence, I like this idea so much I’d thrown in another prospect at a position the Cubs need (oops, I’m becoming DD, flinging prospects against the wall until something sticks).
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Branford Boase Award 2019 - The short list interviews
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Q&A interview with Muhammad Khan and Lucy Pearse, author and editor of
I Am Thunder
Bright but shy Muzna is the sixteen-year-old only child of Pakistani parents now settled in Britain. Her father wants her to become a doctor whereas she can only think about her writing. The story changes course when Muzna gets dangerously over-involved in a manipulative terrorist cell.
The judges were very impressed at how Muhammad Khan handles a difficult subject, found the dialogue authentic and really believed in his character Muzna.
Muhammad Khan
Lucy Pearse
You knew from early that you wanted to write. When did you decide that you would write for teenagers and young people?
I began writing YA fiction back when I was a teenager myself. Writing for people my own age seemed logical. I remember posting stories online and the rush of receiving positive feedback or requests for more. It was especially validating for a lonely child. I guess I’ve stuck with it ever since.
There is a gritty hopefulness to YA fiction that you just don’t find anywhere else. A heady fusion of growth, discovery and emerging wisdom. Just as puberty is the most transformative period in a person’s life, I want my books to echo that energy by never shying away from real issues young people may face. My characters make choices which don’t always pan out but they learn from their mistakes.
I believe all teens are fundamentally good people who are shaped by their life experiences, both good and bad. Our duty as teachers is to try to help them navigate the things they cannot change, to reach for the stars and ultimately become the best version of themselves. As a YA author, I like to see myself as a long-distance teacher.
What did you enjoy most about the editorial process and working with Lucy?
I really lucked out with Lucy! She gets my characters without me having to go into extensive explanations and justifications. As a creator it’s exciting and special to get the chance to work with someone on the same wavelength.
Lucy’s understanding of story is phenomenal and I have learned so much from her. I tend to get caught up in the details, or fixate on just a couple of characters, while she advocates for all my characters, making sure they get a fair deal. She’s a stickler for continuity and constantly challenges me to produce my best writing. What more could you want in an editor?
What would you say were the elements of I Am Thunder that were hardest to get right?
I Am Thunder deals with incredibly sensitive themes of Islamophobia, radicalisation and extremism. I wanted to give a balanced picture of the issues involved while highlighting the double standards we often see in reporting when a crime has been committed by a Muslim. Primarily I wanted to give a voice to my own students who felt excluded from the conversation even though young people are exploited and groomed by extremists more than any other demographic. My students’ feedback was invaluable in getting Muzna’s voice and motivations right.
What are you most proud of in the book?
My biggest dream was to write a book with an inspirational Muslim hero at the centre of everything. Muzna breaks the trope that religion equals extremism. The more research she does, the more she grows to understand that Islam not only condemns terrorism but makes it incumbent on its followers to speak out no matter what the cost. After all the misrepresentation in the media, I am most proud that I was allowed to provide a counterpoint.
What is the best piece of advice Lucy, or indeed anyone else, has given you as a first time author?
Lucy has given me tons of excellent advice but what springs to mind right now are words of wisdom from children’s author SF Said. We were at an event together and I was a nervous wreck: would readers misunderstand the messages in my book? He told me not to worry; that only a small percentage of books make it to publication, so my book was already an achievement to be proud of. He advised me to let go off my book and push on with the next. It was the best advice I’ve ever received.
What made I Am Thunder stand out when you read the manuscript?
So many things, but mostly the teenage voices.· I had never read a YA submission like it, with such a range of young characters, all so completely believable.· It was, and still is, a very ambitious story, but coming from the perspective of these honest, funny and totally clued-up characters, I felt like any reader would be able to navigate and identify with some of the more difficult issues that Muhammad was looking to explore.
What would you say are the qualities of Muhammad’s writing that marks him out as a talent to watch?
His willingness to confront difficult subject-matter head on, but without ever getting too heavy.· He writes about urban teens today and the sometimes terrifying situations that cultural pressure can put them into – but he writes about them with humour and honesty.· His ability to access those difficult questions and find common ground with readers, no matter their personal experience, make him and his work fantastic ambassadors for young people.· He has created a platform to speak directly to teenagers who want to see themselves in the role of writer, creator, and protagonist and ultimately his work does just that – it celebrates the power of teenagers to make that change and challenge the status quo.
What were the main elements you worked on editorially with Muhammad to help him make the book even better?
We worked on bringing out Muzna, the main character's personal journey. There was a fabulous message at the centre of her story which fed into all of the sub-plots and subjects that Muhammad was addressing – the power that owning your own story can give you.· So focusing on Muzna, how she felt at any given point and what her reaction might be to a certain set of circumstances helped to simplify all of the ideas and character journeys that Muhammad wanted to include.
What would you say is the hardest thing for debut authors when working on their manuscripts?
I think being able to let go of the work that you've been holding on to for so long is a very difficult thing – whether that's approaching an agent for the first time, having your debut sent to press for review, or anything in-between.· It's just been you and your writing for a long time and it's nerve-wracking and even upsetting sometimes, to think that people will pass judgement.· I think that knowing you as the author have agency as part of the team working to bring·the novel to market is very important, making it easier for the process to feel much more collaborative from the start.
What advice would you give to anyone writing a contemporary YA novel?
Remember that young people have opinions; let your characters be strong within their narrative and they will be much more real as a result. Try to pinpoint what the centre of their journey is – what will they discover about themselves and what friendship / drama / love / adventure will they have whilst doing it? Everything should come back to that central question and by focusing on it as you write, you will see your way through the structure of it all much more easily.· Read widely (everyone says that!) watch TV, listen to music, use social media, see what young people are talking about, and never be afraid to ask questions.·
Thanks to Muhammad and Lucy for answering our questions.
Muhammad Khan - Photo by Sarah Blackie
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Slash's Drug Confessions Shock Bowie
from blabbermouth.net
World Entertainment News Network reports that guitarist Slash once shocked David Bowie with stories about his narcotic-induced hallucinations.
The former GUNS N' ROSES star was addicted to heroin and cocaine and his mother thought it would be a good idea if the troubled star talked to her friend and former drug addict, Bowie, about his problems.
But Bowie wasn't prepared for Slash's confession, especially when the rocker revealed he saw armies of creatures "gathering in the doorway... holding tiny machine guns and weapons" while high.
In his new autobiography, "Slash", the rocker recalls, "David was engaging and wise in the ways of chemical abuse. He asked me about what I was doing drug-wise and what I was going through emotionally, psychically, and with the band.
"I rambled on for a while, but once I started talking about my little translucent friends, David interrupted me... He'd heard enough."
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Strange Angel: How Rocket Scientist and Occultist Jack Parsons Laid the Foundations for Space Travel
Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS
In 2002, frieze published an essay by George Pendle titled ‘Strange Angels.’ Taking readers back to pre-war Los Angeles, Pendle told the bizarre-but-true story of John (‘Jack’) Whiteside Parsons, the autodidact rocket scientist whose work laid the foundations for space travel. Parsons’s life formed part of ‘a strange, Pynchonian network’ that linked ‘the Edwardian occultist Aleister Crowley […] and the maverick genius of America’s cinematic avant-garde, Kenneth Anger,’ not to mention artists Marjorie Cameron, George Herms, Bruce Connor and Wallace Berman, the actor Dennis Hopper, sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein, and the future founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. In 2005, Pendle developed his essay into a full-length biography of Parsons, titled Strange Angel, which has now been dramatized as a TV series with the same name, and which began streaming on CBS All Access in June 2018. frieze magazine’s US Editor-at-Large, Dan Fox, who commissioned the 2002 essay, caught up with Pendle to talk rocketry, mysticism and TV.
Jack Parsons in 1938, holding the replica car bomb used in the murder trial of police officer Captain Earl Kynette. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Dan Fox What, in a nutshell, is the Jack Parsons tale?
George Pendle Jack Parsons wanted to travel to the moon but the scientific establishment thought this was impossible. So, inspired by the pulp science fiction he was reading the 20-something Parsons built rockets in his backyard, inventing the science of rocketry as he went along and co-founding the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. But Parsons wasn't satisfied. He also wanted to travel to even stranger lands through occult means. The scientific establishment thought this was impossible but Parsons figured it hadn't exactly got a good track record on what was possible or not. So he became a member of Aleister Crowley’s occult group, the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), learned magickal rituals – including the secrets of sex-magick – and alongside such figures as L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein, conjured up elementals, spirits, storms and more. By day he built rockets for the military, by night he engaged in esoteric rituals. Unsurprisingly the FBI removed his security clearance, his career was destroyed, and he spiralled down amidst allegations of black magic and madness. He died at the age of 37 in an explosion in his home laboratory in Pasadena.
GALCIT Rocket Research Group members in the Arroyo Seco, November 1936. Left to right: Rudolph Schott, Amo Smith, Frank Malina, Ed Forman, and Jack Parsons. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
DF What interested you in his life story?
GP Isn’t that self-explanatory? Parsons was a weird hub of seemingly disparate worlds – science, science fiction, the occult. That made him irresistible. Also, very little was really known about him. He was an inhabitant of footnotes and hearsay, always in the shadows. I figured he could use some daylight poured on him.
Jack Reynor playing the role of Jack Parsons in Strange Angel, 2018. Courtesy: CBS
DF What are your impressions of the TV adaptation?
GP It’s still early days, and I have no skin in the game, but I'm pretty impressed by how accurate it is. There is so much detail in the show that came from the book: the car Parsons drove, what brand of cigarettes he smoked, what knot he would have used to tied his tie. It’s like having an entire staff realize the inside of my mind. Some names have been changed and characters condensed but the spirit feels very true to what I imagine it would have been. His story follows such a huge arc that the steady pace they're setting in the first couple of episodes augurs well for a complete wig-out in the later seasons. And they've got some top notch cult (naturally) directors for some of the episodes (David Lowery, Ben Wheatley) so it seems like they're going to do it right. Also Jack Reynor, who plays Jack Parsons, manages to carry off Parsons’s pencil moustache with aplomb – a vital and necessary talent.
Jack Reynor (playing Jack Parsons) and Bella Heathcoat (Susan Parsons) in Strange Angel, 2018. Courtesy: CBS
DF What's it like seeing your work adapted for the screen? How does the TV depiction of Parsons map onto the idea you had of him in your mind?
GP It’s great. He’s been living in my head for 16 years so suddenly seeing him spring to life on screen, in such detail, is like freeing a prisoner from his cage. And yet I also have found myself having slightly mixed emotions, as I imagine any jailor would when their prisoner is finally released. I’m delighted Parsons’s story is finally getting an airing on a big stage, but a Gollum-like part of me keeps muttering, ‘He’s mine, you hear! All mine!’
Though I scraped everything I could from the cracks of history, much of Parsons’s life is still unknown. So what the TV show is doing is taking what I found and running with it, which I couldn’t do because I was writing an historical biography. For instance, the character Ernest in the TV series – a next door neighbour who introduces Parsons to the cult – is a fictional device. The way Parsons actually got into the cult was through friends suggesting he come along. It wasn’t terribly dramatic and I think Parsons was a lot less ambivalent about it than he appears to be in the TV show. But by creating this character of Ernest they’re giving that part of the story much more narrative drive – a character who is all Id, a manifestation of that side of Parsons made flesh.
Strange Angel, 2018, film still. Courtesy: CBS
DF What is the appeal of Parsons’s story to a contemporary audience?
GP I think Parsons’s willingness to defy possibility, probability and plausibility holds a perennial appeal. He symbolized in many respects an age of freedom and exploration – whether it be backyard rocketry or homegrown occultism – which slowly became consolidated into systems of control like the military-industrial complex and corporate cults like Scientology.
Yet I think, as current interest in using psychedelics for medicinal and therapeutic purposes suggests, more people are realizing that the mind cannot always be served by modern science as it stands, and that they might be able to help themselves by following strange paths and seeing where they lead. The brain is a very peculiar beast, and it takes all kinds of goads and leashes to get it to operate properly. I wish I’d been a bit older when I wrote the book because although I tried to be as objective as I could, I don’t think I was as open to Parsons’s occult interests as perhaps I should have been. I never doubted Parsons’s belief in the veracity of magick, but I did doubt its veracity myself and that may have given the book an unconscious bias against that side of him. Having lived another 15 years I’m much more interested in people taking solace in whatever will help them. The reality of something is less important than its relevance to you. Psychedelics, mystical experiences, spinning class, whatever it may be. Just because you believe there’s an occult force out there speaking to you, it doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad for you. Perhaps it can help you.
Jack Parsons. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
DF ‘Ad astra per aspera’ (to the stars through hardship) was Parsons’s motto, and he has been described as the ‘James Dean of CalTech.’ Is there something about Parsons’s story that isn’t just about stars in an astronomical sense, but in the Hollywood sense too? Is it a story of self-invention, of the transformation of personhood?
GP Yes, very much so. Ever since the Europeans arrived, California has always held a strange alchemical pull, and I wanted to delve into that. People have moved to the state, and to Los Angeles in particular, to be transmogrified, to leave their old lives behind them. Everything base can become gold in the blink of an eye there. There are a whole host of modern archetypes that have cropped up around this metamorphosic quality, whether it be the prospector panning for gold, the consumptive seeking out the sunlight for their health, or the wannabe actor or actress arriving in the city on a bus from the Midwest. This aura of transformative possibility utterly infuses Parsons’s story.
When it comes to Hollywood specifically, Parsons was not untouched by the movie bug. He wrote a film treatment in the late 1930s with his rocketry colleague Frank Malina, in order to try and raise funding for their work. It’s a complete roman à clef, telling the story of heroic, anti-fascist rocketeers and Nazis trying to steal their ideas. This was before anyone ever knew the Nazis would be interested in rockets.
I remember when you first commissioned me to write the story you pointed me in the direction of Mike Davis’s book City of Quartz (1990) which is a brilliant study of Los Angeles as both a utopia and dystopia. I wanted to show how Parsons was a natural spawn of that city. My book, and the frieze piece, was called ‘Strange Angel’ for a reason: Parsons couldn’t have existed outside the City of Angels. He was, in a way, a kind of living embodiment of what was possible in Los Angeles at the time, for better, and for worse.
George Pendle is a writer based in Washington D.C., USA. You can read his writing for frieze here.
Strange Angel is currently airing on CBS All Access in the US.
Dan Fox is a writer who lives in New York, USA. His latest book is Limbo (2018).
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Young organic farmer fights for her land
We like buying “organic” food because it sounds like it must be better for our health and for the environment. Admit it – buying “organic” makes us feel good.
But in Germany, young organic farmers like Julia Bar-Tal don’t feel good about the rising price of the land they need to produce the local organic products their peers want to buy.
Julia and other young farmers blame multinational and German companies for buying up land for speculation purposes. This has led to price increases – especially in eastern Germany – of up to 300 percent.
Julia helps run an organic farm collective outside of Berlin with 14 other farmers. Her farm is successful, but she says she can’t expand because the land has simply become too expensive. So she and her group have decided to fight back. She is a leader in a movement that aims to enlist the help of customers who buy organic food to stop industrial giants from bidding up the price of land.
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Ginn thinks 49ers could have been in Super Bowl, wants to be known more as receiver
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Ted Ginn Jr.’s ended his visit to the Detroit Lions without signing a contract. But the 49ers’ top return specialist and part-time receiver did provide some interesting quotes to the Detroit Free-Press upon his exit.
Ginn did not play in the NFC Championship Game loss to the New York Giants, and Kyle Williams floundered as Ginn’s replacement in botching two punt returns.
And what if he played in that NFC final?
“We’d have been in the Super Bowl,” Ginn said. “I don’t know if we’d have won, but we would have fought to win.”
Ginn exited the playoff-opening win over the New Orleans Saints with a knee injury, and he had battled ankle injuries from a Dec. 19 tackle against the Steelers.
After spending his first three seasons with the Dolphins as their first-round draft pick, he got traded in 2010 to the 49ers. In five seasons, he’s started at wide receiver in 38 of 75 games he’s played, totaling 159 receptions for 2,047 yards and six touchdowns.
“I want to be known as a receiver, not a specialist guy, not a punt returner, kickoff returner,” Ginn said. “I want to be known as an actual receiver, and that was some of the things that they expressed in here for me today that I enjoyed.
“I’m six years in now. I just want to be able to just be a receiver, and special teams is given.”
Ginn got ample opportunities last season with the 49ers to showcase his receiving skills. But he caught only 19 passes for 220 yards with no touchdowns. He had three starts and otherwise lined up as the No. 3 receiver or split time with whoever was the No. 2.
His return skills are undoubtedly his best asset, as evident by the touchdowns he scored on a 102-yard kickoff return and 55-yard punt return to clinch the season-opening win over Seattle.
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Ginn also told the Free-Press: “I enjoyed myself here today. A great group of coaches all the way around. As far as a commitment, it’s just a little early right now. I’m going to see my options, but I like the Lions.”
Great group of coaches? I wonder how that resonates with coach Jim Harbaugh, who got into a post-game confrontation with Lions coach Jim Schwartz after their Oct. 16 game.
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2012-07-07 Regina in Super Bock Super Rock Festival at Meco, Portugal
By legerdemain, March 1, 2012 in Shows
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Locationthe neverlands (the netherlands)
That is soo cool, I can't wait to see it!
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Ladies and Gentleman..
I was very far :\ the sound's "ok" (lots of noisy talk around..)
the first 2 minutes are Peter singing with his orchestra, at 2:15 he notices there is a fuck up! LOL how Reginesque I thought!
then he restarts the song at 3:25 and the Lady comes in at 5:00
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thanks for this.. nice to see the warm reception accorded Regina..
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Originally posted by legerdemain:
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. Just wonderful. She adopts Gabriel's version and, of course, makes it so much better. I think the thing I miss in the Peter Gabriel version is that thundering angry piano in the original, but this version is quite stunning in its own way.
Our Regina is just indescribably magnificent and so extraordinarily talented.
Thank you so much for the video!! I was just watching it on Tumblr and wondered if it was yours. Incredible.
Thank you, that is quite a special moment. I don't particularly like Gabriel's version but when you add Regina's voice it's a whole other story.
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Wow, thank you so much, legerdemain!
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Fethiye - Antalya Route
GEMILE ISLAND (St. NICHOLAS ISLAND)
On Gemile Island, Byzantine ruins including a church with beautiful floor mosaics lie among the pine trees. You can explore the beautiful Oludeniz (Blue Lagoon) where the calm, crystal clear water is ideal for swimming and water sports. From Mountain Babadag you can paraglide into the Blue Lagoon.
ÖLÜDENIZ (DEAD SEA)
From Gemiler cruising towards the east, you reach a couple of bays suitable for anchorage and overnight stay. Bestas Harbour and Soguksu Bay give an opportunity to take a walk for an hour and visit the "ghost town"; Kaya Köyü, whose Greek population was exchanged with Turks living in Thrace in 1922. Mersinli Bay is another good anchorage and swimming spot. Rounding Yogan Cape from here, you enter the breathtaking Belcekiz Gulf. Here you'll find Ölüdeniz, the world famous inland bay that is protected from the open sea by the cape, a lagoon of shallow, perfectly still, turquoise water completely hidden from view from the sea. This paradise is closed to yachts to prevent its pollution.
Ölüdeniz is a popular tourist centre - backdrop of the magnificent pine covered mountains, the long white beach of Belcekiz, and the literally breathtaking blue of the sea make it a sight well worth seeing by land or by sea. Hotels, restaurants and campsites are located along the front of Belcekiz Beach. Looking up, the azure skies are punctuated by coloured parachutes gliding and spinning over the lagoon area from their flight point at the top of 1975 metre high Babadag (Mount Baba). This gives a new image of the resort - it offers the best wheather and landing conditions for the sport of paragliding anywhere in the world. Adrenalin and freedom… These two words pretty much sum up the paragliding experience.
Gemiler Adası ( St.Nicholas Adası ) Gemiler Adası ( St.Nicholas Adası )
Ölüdeniz Ölüdeniz
Kalkan Kalkan
Kaş – Antiphellos Kaş – Antiphellos
Kekova Kekova
Demre – Myra Demre – Myra
Olympos Olympos
Phaselis Phaselis
Kemer Kemer
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YESILKÖY
The passage east in the Kekova direction from Gemiler Island or Ölüdeniz is usually made in the very early morning - passing the high capes of Yedi Burunlar (Seven Capes) and Patara - for the reason that, during the day, this part of coastline receives a strong contrary wind and has rough sea, which makes daytime cruising quite uncomfortable. 18 km long Patara Beach is located after the 7th cape - here the ancient city of Patara, birthplace of St. Nicholas , is still mostly covered by sand. The journey takes around 4 hrs before arriving at beautiful Yesilköy Bay, near Kalkan , in time for breakfast at an ideal anchorage spot. This spot is also very popular for fishing activities.
This perfect Mediterranean village boasts a pretty yacht harbour, seafront restaurantsand charming hotels and pensions, making it a popular place preferred by thgose in search of a more laid-back stay in Turkey. From Kalkan there is an opportunity to visit important Lycian cities such as Patara, Xanthos, Letoon and Tlos by bus and return to the boat the same day. The harbour is a good place for overnight stays. According to ancient sources, the mosque in the harbour was build after the 14th century on the site of a destroyed Roman Temple, and had also been a Byzantian Church during bygone ages. Now, the mosque, the winding cobbled streets lined with well preserved Greek houses and an abundance of red and pink bougaivillea makes Kalkan a storehouse of beautiful photographs as well as living evidence of the continuity of life and the colourful fusion of different cultures.
KAS – ANTIPHELLOS
15 miles from Kalkan, Kas is another sheltered harbour where you can stay overnight. Kas has also became a popular tourist centre with its historical and natural ambiance. The modern town of Kas has many remains from the Lycian period when the town was named Antiphellos. The rock-cut tombs on the slopes of the surrounding hills date to the 4th century BC. On a rise between the sea and the hill which was probably the acropolis of Antiphellos, you can see a rock tomb decorated with a Doric style façade and dancing female figures inside. To the west of the modern town following the road to Çukurbag Peninsula, the ancient theatre of Antiphellos appears. The Cavea of the theatre was made with 26 seating rows for a 4.000 people capacity. This faces Meis (Kastellerizon) Greek Island 5 miles away. Among thousands of sarcophagi in the whole Lycia, one is used as the modern symbol of Kas town. It stands at the upper end of Uzun Çarsi Caddesi 5 min. walking distance from your boat in the harbour, and its excellent preservation and elegant form is impressive.
The Hyposorium of the sarcophagus has Lycian inscriptions, which explains the importance of the person who was buried there and the rules on how to protect this monumental tomb.
Kekova, with its incredible beauties is one of the best-loved anchorages of blue voyagers, where history and nature come together. After departing Kas, first you pass Uluburun opposite Meis (Kastellerizon) Island and Sicak Peninsula where the ancient city of Aperlae was found. Name of Kekova is taken from the Island, which is covered with ancient ruins. The lake like sheltered sea between the Island and the main land is also called Dead Sea. Tersane Bay is located at the southwest of the Island where you find the remains of an ancient dockyard. At the southeast of the Island there is another beautiful anchorage, is called Karaloz. Following shore, you can see many houses submerged in the water as the result of various earthquakes, which gives another name to the area - "sunken city".
In Kekova region the safest place for anchor is the village of Üçagiz, which was called Theimussa in the Lycian period. From the inscriptions on the tomb it is understood that itshistory goes back to the 4th century BC in Theimussa town. Ruins of necropol give a very interesting picture resembling a field of sarcophagi.
The ancient city of Simena can be seen on the island and where the village Kale is located. Kale is full of medieval and ancient structures, which are historical emblems of the village's natural beauty. At top of the village a well-preserved castle stands which was reconstructed by crusaders upon a Lycian. Inside the castle, there is a very small theatre or Odeon, worth seeing. The most interesting sarcophagus of Kekova is one which, near the Kale Village stand alone in the water. On the mainland, many of other good samples of Lycian sarcophagi can be seen among the olive and carob trees.
Kekova is probably one of the most enjoyable regions of the Mediterranean because of its impressive historical background, unspoilt nature and gorgeous turquoise waters. Just to preserve this beauty, people are not allowed to do scuba diving and snorkelling with masks, around the sunken cities.
DEMRE - MYRA
The ruins of Myra are situated 5 km from the shore. On reaching the city, the first thing you see is the acropolis on top of the hill, which is literally covered with Lycian rock tombs. The city walls dating to Hellenistic and Roman periods can still be seen. Most of pigeon hole type tombs (called simple niches) and house type tombs are damaged, but some inscriptions and reliefs are still visible.
The theatre - The cavea of which is half Greek and half Roman in style - is situated near the necropolis, and is in better condition than the other theatres in Lycia. Vaulted passage entrances and the stage building are also in good condition.
St. Nicolas was born in Patara and lived in Myra. In the 4th century he was the Bishop of Myra until the end of his life, and was buried in his church. The church of St. Nicholas in Kale (Myra) was collapsed in an earthquake in 529; a larger church, perhaps a larger basilica-type structure was built in its place. The Church of St Nicholas was razed to the ground during a naval assault conducted by the Arabs in 1034. An inscription reads that it was restored under Constantine IX in 1043. Some additions were made during renovations in the 12th century, and the church was finally renovated in its present position during the 19th century and again after Atatürk leaving an excellent example of Anatolian - Byzantine architecture. In the 11th century Italian pirates broke open the sarcophagus of St. Nicholas and took his bones to Bari, in Italy. St. Nicholas's Roman style decorated sarcophagus still stands in the church.
Another Lycian town. Its remains are dispersed in the nature beside a magnificent beach. Far beyond, the eternal flame of Chimera burns.
One of the harbour cities of ancient Lycia. At the foot of mount of Olympe, the site is overlooking the sea at its three harbours. The sights include the aqueduct, the theatre, baths and the royal path amongst the pinewoods.
A resort town surrounded by high mountains and with a nice fully-equipped modern marina. Phaselis and Olympos are two sights that can be visited from Kemer.
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If we ask to know the truth, will we accept the answer?
A sure-fire cure for burnout: the eucharistic Presence
Readings of the Holy Mass – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
With Good Samaritan story, Jesus leads us deeper into God’s love
Flowers, signs and distractions near a monstrance
When they needed the right words, Holy Spirit delivered
Pope: Confession is not like dry cleaners, but is encounter with Jesus
(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted April 29, 2013
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Going to confession isn’t like heading off to be tortured or punished, nor is it like going to the dry cleaners to get out a stain, Pope Francis said in a morning Mass homily.
“It’s an encounter with Jesus” who is patiently waiting “and takes us as we are,” offering penitents his tender mercy and forgiveness, he said April 29.
Members of the Vatican’s investment agency and a group of religious women joined the pope for the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the pope lives.
“God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all,” the pope said, quoting from the First Letter of John.
While everyone experiences moments of darkness in life, the verse refers to the darkness of living in error, “being satisfied with oneself, being convinced of not needing salvation,” he said.
As John continues, the pope said, “If we say, ‘We are without sin,’ we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
People have to start out with the humility of realizing “we are all sinners, all of us,” he said.
Even though it is embarrassing to admit to and tell the truth about one’s thoughts and deeds, embarrassment or “shame is a true Christian and human virtue” linked to the traditional virtue of humility.
“Humility and kindness are the framework of a Christian life,” the way a Christian must walk in life, he said.
“Oftentimes we think that going to confession is like going to the dry cleaners” to get out a stain, but it isn’t, Pope Francis said.
“It’s an encounter with Jesus” who “waits for us to forgive us” and offer salvation, he said.
The pope said confession isn’t like “going to a torture session” where Jesus “is waiting to lambast me.”
Confession “is going to praise God, because I — the sinner — have been saved by him,” who always waits and always forgives “with tenderness.”
When the Lord forgives, he is performing an act of justice, the pope said, “because he came to save and forgive us,” welcoming us with the affection of a father toward his children.
People need to believe that when they sin, Jesus will defend them because he is just and wants people to have “that peace that only he can give.”
However, people must go before the Lord with courage, even joy, “with our truth of being sinners,” he said.
“We must never disguise ourselves before God,” who “asks us to be humble and kind” and truthful.
In his homily April 27, the pope said Jesus invites Christians to go outside their comfort zone and proclaim the Gospel with joy.
Do not be afraid of the joy of the Holy Spirit, who opens the path “forward,” outside of oneself, he said.
Present for the Mass were workers from the Vatican post office and staff from Vatican’s St. Martha Dispensary, a maternal and pediatric clinic that serves mainly immigrants.
The pope warned against the formation of “little groups” of self-righteous whose hearts are closed “to the freshness of the Holy Spirit” and who “bargain with power” and try to solve problems alone, “among ourselves.”
These groups of self-righteous defend their hold on the truth with “slander, gossip” who only look within, wall themselves in and tear down others, the pope said.
Religious communities that are free open themselves up to “the freedom of God and the Holy Spirit,” and they “press on, even in the face of persecution.”
He asked people to look at their own parish, church group or religious community and ask whether they are open to the Holy Spirit and open to spreading the word of God.
“Because the good is like this: It always spreads, the good never curls up inside” but reaches out to the ends of the earth with joy.
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Elsa Peralta
FCT Research Fellow
E-mail: elsa.peralta@campus.ul.pt
Elsa Peralta, PhD in Anthropology (ISCSP-UTL, Portugal, 2006), is a FCT research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Her work draws on crossed perspectives from anthropology, memory studies and postcolonial studies and focuses on the intersection between private and public modes of recall of past events, in particular of the colonial past. Between 2009 and 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL), Portugal, with a research project on the memory and forgetting of Portuguese colonial empire in postcolonial Portugal, and between 2009 and 2011 she was an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Manchester. In CEC she coordinates the Research Line “Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective” and is the PI of the project “Narratives of loss, war and trauma: Portuguese cultural memory and the end of empire”. Her works include several papers and books, as well as the edited volumes Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in Contemporary Society, Routledge, 2009 (with Marta Anico), Cidade e Império: Dinâmicas coloniais e reconfigurações pós-coloniais, Edições 70, 2013 (with Nuno Domingos) and Retornar: Traços de Memória do Fim do Império, Edições 70, 2017 (with Bruno Góis e Joana Oliveira). She was the curator and scientific coordinator of the exhibition Return – Traces of Memory produced by EGEAC in 2015.
Social and Cultural Memory
Museums and Material Culture
Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Portugal and Portuguese Empire
Narrative, life-history and biography
Peralta, E. (2017), Lisboa e a Memória do Império: Património, Museus e Espaço Público, Lisbon: Deriva/Le Monde Diplomatic.
Peralta, E., Góis, B. & Oliveira, J. (eds.) (2017), Retornar: Traços de Memória do Fim do Império. Lisbon: Edições 70.
Peralta, E. & Jensen, L. (2017), From Austerity to Postcolonial Nostalgia: Crisis and National Identity in Portugal and Denmark. In Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories, S. Jonsson & J. Willén (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, pp. 74-91.
Peralta, E. & Oliveira, J. (2016), Pós-memória como herança: fotografia e testemunho do ‘retorno’ de África. Configurações, 17, 181-197.
Peralta, E. (2015), The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in The Museu do Oriente, Portugal”. In Museum Theory: An Expanded Field, A. Witcomb & K. Message (eds.). Malden, MA, USA, & Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Peralta, E. (2014), Conspirações de silêncio: Portugal e o fim do império colonial. In Este País Não Existe – Textos contra ideias-feitas. B. Monteiro & N. Domingos (eds.). Lisbon: Deriva/Le Monde Diplomatique, pp. 127-134.
Peralta, E. (2014), O Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar: A Performance do Império no espaço sagrado da nação. In Antropologia e Performance. 100Luz, Coleção Cultura e Sociedade, pp. 213-236.
Peralta, E. & Domingos, N. (eds.) (2013), Cidade e Império: Dinâmicas coloniais e reconfigurações pós-coloniais. Lisbon: Edições 70.
Some publications are available in the repository of the University of Lisbon.
Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective / CITCOM
Portuguese Colonial Empire and Urban Popular Culture: Comparing Visions from the Metropolis and the Colonies (1945-1974)
Narratives of Loss, War and Trauma: Portuguese Cultural Memory and the end of Empire
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FAFSA Verification By the Numbers
By MorraLee Keller, Director of Technical Assistance
When we think about hurdles our students must overcome when getting into college, FAFSA verification often rises near the top of the list. As NCAN continues its quest to address these hurdles – most recently via public comments suggesting the U.S. Department of Education reduce verification regulations – we opted to dig into the numbers associated with verification and its effects on FAFSA applicants.
While we know many students are randomly chosen to go through the verification process, the department does not share the specific criteria or flags in the system that get a student intentionally selected for verification. What we do know is that over 90 percent of intentionally selected applicants have Expected Family Contributions that would qualify them for a Pell Grant, and therefore disproportionately affects the population we serve.
Because data regarding verification are not publicly reported, NCAN submitted a Freedom of Information Act request. We asked for three academic years’ worth of verification numbers (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16) so that we could understand the volume of applicants selected, which verification category they were placed in, and the resolution codes to determine how many applicants were able to successfully complete the process – and how many weren’t. We are also waiting for more data, but have done some internal number-crunching in the meantime.
For informational purposes, data the department did turn over show that officials have used six categories of verification over the aforementioned three years (numbers are rounded down):
Group Definition FAFSAs Submitted in 2013-14 FAFSAs Submitted in 2014-15 FAFSAs Submitted in 2015-16 Notes
V1 Standard Verification 6.48M 4.52M 4.74M Reduction may be attributed to IRS DRT use
V2 SNAP Verification 92K N/A N/A Discontinued in FY15
V3 Child Support Verification 72K 68K 62K Discontinued in FY17
V4 Custom Verification 97K 417K 271K Used for high school completion and identity/statement of educational purpose
V5 Aggregate Verification 114K 110K 249K Used for students selected in multiple categories
V6 Reserved N/A 220K 712K
Used for students with very low household resources; discontinued in FY18
NCAN has not received all of the requested information, so we cannot yet calculate the percentage of applicants who do not successfully resolve verification – students who are affected by “verification melt,” as we call it. NCAN will continue to seek these data and advocate on behalf of our students to reduce this burden, as well as advocate for a less burdensome process to retrieve tax transcripts so that those selected can complete the process as efficiently as possible. We are hopeful that with the return of the IRS DRT for the 2018-19 FAFSA filing period, our members will continue to encourage families to use this tool, to reduce the likelihood of their being selected for the verification process.
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